2020 wildfire season: busy season for US NWS Incident Meterologists

I want to take a moment to review what US National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) do:

An Incident Meteorologist (IMET) is a National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist specially trained to provide onsite weather support at wildfires and other all-hazard incidents. Weather briefings and forecasts provided by NWS IMETs ensure the safety of operational personnel and assist incident management teams and responders with critical decision support activities. The NWS IMET cadre has been serving the nation’s incident responders for nearly a century (obtained from US National Weather Service IMET Facebook Page (About) on November 11, 2020)

I follow the IMETs on their Facebook page noted above and knew that this was a busy year for IMETs. I want to acknowledge all the hard work that IMETs do when deployed to wildfires for up to two weeks. You are away from your families and home NWS Forecast Office for up to two weeks providing weather forecasts for the fire you are working, during a pandemic.  Occasionally, I have seen your briefings for the fire you were working on that fire's page on inciweb or elsewhere, nice job. Thank-you from the bottom of my heart for your good work and your sacrifices. 

IMETs save lives. 

Here is a post that the US National Weather Service IMET shared on their Facebook page on November 9th. 

direct link to post from US NWS IMET