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Widespread Precipitation and Gusty Winds in the West; Snow from the Great Lakes to the Northeast

A Pacific storm system is expected to bring strong winds and more precipitation to the western U.S., along with the likelihood of snowfall into the Sierra Nevada. Accumulating snow will develop downwind from the Great Lakes into parts of the Northeast through Saturday. Polar air will surge into the eastern half of the country this weekend. 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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