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IS-271.a Anticipating Hazardous Weather & Community Risk
As an emergency manager, you play a special role in anticipating and preparing for hazardous weather. This course will help you meet this challenge more effectively by: •Enhancing your ability to recognize potentially hazardous weather and flooding situations and how they may affect your community •Familiarizing you with National Weather Service (NWS) products so that you understand how to use and interpret forecasts •Encouraging you to develop a partnership with the NWS well in advance of a threat This course has four main sections: •Weather: Provides a basic introduction to meteorology, particularly as it relates to hazardous weather. •Hazards: Describes the factors that can turn a merely inconvenient weather event into a disaster. The section also presents fact sheets on the most common hazardous weather events that occur in the United States. These fact sheets reproduce the information found in the Resource Guide used in the Hazardous Weather and Flooding Preparedne
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