It was a pleasure to attend Rob Macedo’s (KD1CY) Smithfield RI SKYWARN Training Class on July 13. While scheduled to last 3 hours, it proceeded at a casual pace and was done in about 2.5 hours. The class covers criteria for reporting severe weather to the NWS SKYWARN line, and focuses a good deal on tornado/funnel cloud signs.
Our local SKYWARN program is run out of the Taunton MA NWS facility, which has recently added a six meter link into the KA1RCI Repeater Network. The only other tie into RI is the 146.76 repeater, which has not had decent state-wide coverage for years (perhaps less than 20% of the state can reach that machine).
The next SKYWARN training is happening on July 31st. Details can be found here:
