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 NWS Anchorage in the Community
September 29, 2007

The National Weather Service's StormReady is a program designed to prepare local communities for high impact weather-related events, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, blizzards, snowstorms, and high wind events. NWS Anchorage's Warning Coordination Meteorologist Sam Albanese traveled to King Cove to discuss the benefits the advantages of StormReady to its emergency managers.
August 2007

The National Weather Service sponsors a booth in Raven Hall at the annual Alaska State Fair to answer questions about the products and services that we provide. Here, Larry Rundquist with the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center talks about the importance of volunteers in the data collection and hydrology forecast process.
May 2007

Outdoor Week is an event sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management. Sixth graders from all over Anchorage visit Campbell Tract and get a chance to explore the outdoors while learning about science. The Anchorage National Weather Service Office volunteered to lead one of the stations. Here, meteorologist Louise Fode is demonstrating a Tornado in a Bottle as a lead-in to talking about summer weather safety.
May 12, 2007

The Anchorage National Weather Service Office held its 3rd annual Open House on May 12, 2007. People from Anchorage and surrounding communities were invited to come and learn about the weather forecast process, take part in our onsite spotter training, and watch the weather balloon launch. Here, a family listens as Lead Forecaster Eddie Zingone and Science and Operations Officer Carven Scott describe AWIPS, the workhorse behind all of our forecast products.


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