Weather Spotter

These Volunteer s are usually Trained by the National Weather Service , and given a Phone Number or Amateur Radio Frequency to call if a major Weather event, such as a Tornado , Severe Thunderstorm , or Flood occurs where the spotter is located.

Spotter information is heavily used by local authorities and the National Weather Service, and they are an integral part of the severe weather warning process. Canada also has a spotter program, similar to the US, but smaller and less organized.

MEDIA WEATHER SPOTTERS

With harsh New England winters, television stations try their best to keep up-to-date snowfall amounts, and reports, etc. Former WHDH-TV 7 meteorologist Todd Gross launched the station's first weather spotter network several years ago. Today it is the largest in New England, with close to 300 spotters. The former name of the group was "WHDHwx - The 7NEWS Weather Spotter Group". After Todd Gross was abruptly fired in December 2005, the group's name was switched to "NEWeather - Todd Gross' Weather Spotter Network", according to the Yahoo! groups page.

However, Gross' spotter group isn't the only spotter group in New England. Several TV stations have them. WZMY (formerly WNDS) meterologist Al Kaprielian started his weather watcher group in 1986, when WNDS-TV opened. Today, known as my TV, Kaprielian features one weather watcher per night on my TV Prime, with their name, town, and current temperature on the map.

CBS4 (WBZ-TV) started their own weather spotter group a few years ago. During the winter, 'BZ allows you to e-mail snow totals into them, and they put them on the map.

Storm Trak 5 also has a weather spotter network, which is used often by JC Monahan.

WMUR News 9 does as well, which also has close to 100 members.

Does your local TV station have weather watchers/spotters? If so, edit this page and include yours !

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