Click here to sign up as a volunteer for the 2024 Weather-Ready Nation Scout Event scheduled for January 28, 2024 from 7:45 am to 12:15 pm ET. The event will take place in-person at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. 

AMS is offering Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts ages 10 and up an opportunity to earn the Weather-Ready Nation patch (and for those in Boy Scouts of America, this is an opportunity to earn their Weather Merit Badge). The program will teach Scouts about meteorology and give them an understanding of weather phenomena in their area. The program will also introduce Scouts to weather-related emergency preparedness.

All Scouts will learn aspects of meteorology and emergency management to become better prepared for weather-related natural disasters. Scouts will engage in activities with professional meteorologists from across the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise, including the National Weather Service, America’s Weather Industry, local media, researchers, and local emergency managers. During this program, Scouts will learn how to interpret symbols on a weather map, discover the differences between various weather alerts and how the public receives them, discuss what items need to be in an emergency kit, determine ways families and communities can be prepared in the event of a weather emergency, and more. 

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For more information, contact event organizers Zachary Riel ([email protected]) and Douglas Hilderbrand ([email protected])