The toolkit of NWS Incident Meteorologists (IMETS)

Among the tools that a NWS Incident Meteorologists takes to the field when deployed to a wildfire are weather balloons and RAWS. Learn about these two tools from recent posts from the US NWS IMET Office .

Weather balloons used by weather offices around the world, including National Weather Service Weather Forecasts Offices. The portable version is used by IMETs when deployed to wildfires.

Another important tool used by IMETs is the Remote Automatic Weather Station.