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Extreme Winter Weather Preparedness
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:45:00 PM UTC
Duration: 1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)
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Join the Region 2 National Preparedness Division for a webinar featuring FEMA Liaisons to the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) and National Water Center (NWC).
This presentation offers a comprehensive overview of winter-related hazards and their associated impacts, including but not limited to:
  observed and forecast snow
  snowmelt and rain-on-snow
  freezing rain and ice accumulation
  extreme cold temperature and wind chill
  river ice and ice jam formation

The session will also describe National Weather Service (NWS) winter-related products, providing attendees with valuable tools and insights to enhance operational preparedness and response during winter-related incidents.

Who should attend? Whole community partners, Individuals and families, Volunteer and faith-based organizations, Local, State, Federal government, Private Sector, Emergency Managers.


This event will include Live Captioning for additional accommodations contact kathleen.madigan@fema.dhs.gov.


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Speaker

Whitney Flynn and Kevin Kalbaugh
FEMA National Watch Center

FEMA works to ensure equitable access for all to any services and programs that are provided by the agency. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please make your request in an email to fema-r2-prepares@fema.dhs.gov. Last minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fulfill.

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