When doing the local weather report, Meteorologists and the National Weather Service rely on trained spotters within the community to help us report. Anyone meeting certain requirements within the community is able to become a trained spotter in roughly 2 sessions with local emergency management.
After following guidelines and course material, you can make observations that we can use to help make our forecasts more accurate. When we talk about snow totals and flood reports we gain a lot of information from trained spotters across the state who give us up-to-date information.
Every season needs a trained spotter and the course only takes 2 hours.
Staying up to date on information is vital for the community's safety and the accuracy of our forecast, and to be honest, we LOVE to hear from you.
So, the next time we talk about local weather reports of an area with flooding, or mention snow totals, or even talk about damage caused by a storm, just know we had people from our community help us make the weather forecast accurate and informative. You could be our next trained spotter!
