Saturday April 25, 2009 noon and 6:00

This page is the beginning of a collection of useful links!  Some are offered by presenters at past seminars...

• 4/6/09  Louis Uccellini, one of our guest speakers for 2009, is co-author of “Northeast Snowstorms” with Paul Kocin (NWS).  The Wall Street Journal says, "If there were a gold standard for weather reference books, it would be the two-volume "Northeast Snowstorms" and they rated it one of the five best weather books!
  
  ALL proceeds from its sale of this book go to the American Meteorological Society--so neither Louis nor Paul profits in any way from the book’s sale. This is truly a collector’s item for any weather enthusiast (I know because I’ve read the book! --Tom)
      You can buy the book by clicking here.

• 2/9/09  NWS Basic Spotter Training Schedule (updated regularly)

• Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 21-27, 2009

• Thinking of chasing storms?  Make sure you read this paper:  Storm Chasing with Safety, Courtesy, and Responsibility by Charles A. Doswell III, National Severe Storms Laboratory (retired).

• From Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, Principal Investigator, Lightning Injury Research Program, University of Illinois at Chicago Emergency Medicine:
  • Lightning Strike & Electric Shock Survivors, Int'l:  Lightning Strike & Electric Shock Survivors International, Inc. (LS&ESSI, Inc.) is a non-profit support group by and for survivors, their families, and other interested parties.
  • See http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov; we now have a new posters to try to reach the kids: