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Fire Weather Concerns for a Large Part of the Central U.S.; Severe Weather in the Central Plains

Dry and windy conditions will bring widespread fire weather concerns to the northern/central Plains and portions of the Southwest into the southern Plains. Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging wind gusts are possible over the central Plains today into this weekend. Rain and high elevation snow is expected over parts of the Cascades and Northern Intermountain Region through Saturday. 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

 

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