The National Weather Service (NWS) Incident Meteorologist (IMET) Operations Office is conducting their annual IMET Continuity of Excellence Exercise in Boise Idaho, annual training for IMETs. Wondering what an IMET does? According to this 2021 article on WeatherNation:
The iMet's main responsibility is to provide hyper-localized forecasts to emergency managers and first responders. Incident Meteorologists, like their National Weather Service counterparts, are using many tools according to (IMET) Mike (Ottenweller): "high resolution models, satellite, radar, whatever it is that we have, we take advantage of it, really dial it in.
Some of you might be interested in my June 2021 post "About IMETs and other fire weather services from the NWS" where I shared a 22 minute video from the National Weather Service and the Weather Channel called Forecast Earth, Forecast the Inferno. The video is worth the time!
As I write this The IMET Continuity of Excellence Exercise is being held in person in Boise, Idaho with remote training being held next week (the week of March 20th).
Monday was Trainee Day at the IMET Continuity of Excellence Exercise in Boise!
— NWS IMET Operations (@NWS_IMET_OPS) March 14, 2023
We welcome 1/3 of our certified IMETs for the rest of the week starting on Tuesday, and will have remote training for the remaining 2/3 of the IMETs next week.
NOAA/NWS photo by Robert Hyatt pic.twitter.com/r99tdUXJdx
Tuesday at the IMET Continuity of Excellence Exercise included several interactive sessions about current and future technologies. We also practiced ways to better coordinate our weather forecasts while working to support incident management teams at wildfires. pic.twitter.com/8L795T5LUt
— NWS IMET Operations (@NWS_IMET_OPS) March 15, 2023
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