The US National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists are in the midst of their 2022 Continuity of Excellence Exercise or CEE. The IMETs are meeting in Boise Idaho this week (week of March 7th) for CEE with what sounds to me like an opportunity to review important forecasting, safety concerns and other related issues that they will need when they are assigned to a wildfire to provide onsite weather forecasting. The US National Weather Service IMETs have been sharing about CEE on their Facebook page all this week. Some topics covered to date include but are not limited to probabilistic forecast messaging and firefighter safety during extreme weather events and practicing operational weather briefings.
Of note is that there is a mentoring program for IMET trainees, there are 33 trainees this year (see this NWS IMET Face book post.
Yesterday they the IMETs had a 5K run
Next up on March 11th: a day in the life of an IMET
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