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• NWA Annual Meeting in Charleston SC October 12–17, 2013. Plan now to attend and present! Visit our main meeting page for all the details or jump to:
  
  • Call for Abstracts
  • Hotel information
  • Preregistration
  • Exhibitor Registration
  • Sponsorship Opportunities
  
  
• May 24th is Heat Awareness Day. Heat is the #1 weather-related killer in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. In fact, on average, excessive heat claims more lives each year than floods, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes combined. See: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/heat/index.shtml.
  
  
• Enjoy two new articles in the NWA Journal of Operational Meteorology:
  
  
  • They just don't make storms like this one anymore: Analyzing the anomalous record snowfall event of 1959. Thanks to authors: C. Hansen, M. L. Kaplan, S. A. Mensing, S. J. Underwood, J. M. Lewis, K. C. King, and J. E. Haugland.
    
    
  • Verification of RAP Model Soundings in Preconvective Environments. Thanks to Jennifer M. Laflin.
    
    
• Hurricane / Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy – NOAA Service Assessment released. See the press release or load the report (PDF).
  
  
• News from NSSL: Tornado Counts from May 2012 to April 2013....How do they Compare?
  
  
• 26 May - 1 June is National Hurricane Preparedness Week
  Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st, East Pacific May 15th: Be Weather Ready
  More on Tropical Weather at http://www.noaawatch.gov/themes/tropical.php
  
  
• The Ken Reeves Memorial AccuWeather Undergraduate Scholarship in Meteorology, that provides a $1000 scholarship to NWA Student Members, is open until May 31st. Undergraduates going into their sophomore year or higher this fall, are encouraged to apply.
  
  
• Undergraduate students – apply now through 1 July for the annual NWA Meteorological Satellite Applications Award. Win a stipend of $500 and more! Members – help spread the news about NWA grants/scholarships.
  
  
• K-12 Teachers – the Sol Hirsch NWA Education Fund Grant applications are now open until 1 June 2013. NWA members, please help spread this news to Teachers.
  
  
• Annual NWA Award nominations are open. See http://www.nwas.org/awards/index.php for online submission procedures and lists of awards and past winners.
  
  

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Devestating severe weather strikes Oklahoma and other states from Texas to Michigan May 18–21.

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