Scattered Severe Thunderstorms Across the Northern Plains; Fire Weather Concerns in the Western U.S.

Scattered severe thunderstorms are forecast across central and eastern North Dakota, as well as far northwest Minnesota Saturday (Slight Risk level 2 of 5). Damaging wind gusts are the primary threat. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions will persist through the weekend across the Western U.S. Isolated dry thunderstorms could lead to new fire starts over portions of the northern Rockies. Read More >

EDUCATION

Thank you for visiting our education page. On this page you will find links to resources provided by our office as well from our national headquarters. In addition, we are begining something new here, creating videos that will highlight different aspects of weather forecasting and meteorology in general. Enjoy and we hope you learn a thing or two!

Also note the national education page is here.

VIDEOS

All About Weather Maps

Doppler Radar

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: using Excel to graph trends

Winter Weather

Brief Tutorials

Inversion with tutorial

Jet Stream with tutorial

Pineapple Express/California Rains and Flooding

LINKS

Owlie SKYWARN