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Multimedia Presentations

Weather Safety
Weather Safety for Kindergarten through 3rd grade
Effective Severe Weather Strategy for Industry
About Us (PDF Overview of who we are and what we do)
Basic Spotter Training Presentation:

PDF file (3M pdf file. View online or right click and download)
Microsoft Power Point presentation. (3.7M zip file. Right click and download. Requires MS Power Point or a Power Point Viewer)

Media Resources

Business and Industry Preparedness Workshop

Web Presentation: Effective Severe Weather Strategy for Business and Industry (1.85M pdf). Right click to download MS Power Point Presentation. (4.59M)
Outline of an Effective Severe Weather Strategy for Businesses
Severe Weather Plan Worksheet (84k pdf)
Complete package of materials for a Severe Weather Workshop for Industry. (4.17M zip file)

Weather Photo

Office Newsletter

Our office newsletter, the Weather Home Companion:

Latest Issue - Spring 2009 (1.1M pdf)
Fall 2008 (1.8M pdf)
Spring 2008 (1.7M pdf)
Fall 2007 (1M pdf)
Spring 2007 (870k pdf)
Fall 2006 (900k pdf)
Spring 2006 (800k pdf)
Fall 2005 (760k pdf)
Spring 2005
Fall 2004

Text Information Services - Header Information

Publications and Brochures

National Weather Service Publications A comprehensive resource for National Weather Service publications on topics ranging from Aviation Weather to Winter Storms.

NOAA Backgrounders Background information sheets on NOAA functions and features, including operations and research,Weather Radio, Lightning, Wildfires, Aviation, EMWIN, StormReady, Forecasting Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Oceans, Satellites, Volcanic Ash, Ships and Aircraft

NWS Quad Cities Service Guide
Last updated April 2008 (2.03M pdf)

Weather and Safety

Drought (2 pages; 587k pdf)
Floods...The Awesome Power (16 pages; 3M pdf)
Owlie Skywarn Activity Book for Kids (50 pages; 1.6M pdf)
Thunderstorms, Tornadoes and Lightning (16 pages; 1.74M pdf)
Winter Storms: Deceptive Killers (12 pages; 2.14M pdf)
Effective Severe Weather Strategy (2 pages; 360k pdf)
Effective Severe Weather Strategy Safety Poster (18x24; 2.9M pdf)
StormReady (2 pages; 322k pdf)
StormReady Schools (1 page; 174k pdf)
StormReady Supporters (2 pages; 271k pdf)
Watches and Warnings
El Nino
Ice Jams
Lightning
Snow Melt and Flooding
Tornadoes
Winter Weather

Climate (9k to 40k pdf files)

Climate Change
Local Climate: Moline, IL
Local Climate: Burlington, IA
Local Climate: Dubuque, IA
Local Climate: Iowa
Local Climate: Illinois
Local Climate: Missouri
Who uses Climate Data? (11x17 Poster; 910k pdf)

NWS Programs/Services:

About the NWS
Aviation Weather Services
EAS System
Fire Weather Services
NWS Careers: Hydrology
NWS Careers: Meteorology
Storm-Based Warnings
Storm Spotters/Skywarn
Upper Air

Weather and Gardening Brochures (220k pdf)

Other:

Datastreme (at DVN)
Indian Summer (7k pdf)
Rain Gages
Streamgaging

Local Weather Radio Fact Sheets (each around 115kb pdf )

Area Overview (Eastern Iowa/western Illinois)
Quad Cities
Cedar Rapids
Delaware County
Dubuque
Burlington
Fairfield
Freeport
Macomb
Maquoketa
Medill
Princeton
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Safety Poster (1M pdf)
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Brochure (190k pdf)

Hydrologic Information (each around 170k pdf)

Co-Op Observer Forms

Spotters Guides

Basic Spotter's Guide (558k pdf)
Advanced Spotter's Guide (3.3M pdf)
Advanced Spotter's Guide - text only. (82k pdf)

Other Tables

Conversion Tables

Area Maps

Science and Education

National Weather Service Quad Cities School Guide

Educational Links

JetStream The National Weather Service Online Weather School
NOAA Weather and Ocean Education for Students
NOAA Weather and Ocean Education for Teachers
National Weather Service Education Page
UCAR Education and Training
History of the National Weather Service
Glossary of Select Meteorological, Climatological, and Hydrological Terms
Digital Library for Earth System Education

Careers and Opportunities in Meteorology

Professional Meteorological Organizations

Science Items

Past Events
Local Research Case Studies (coming soon)
Local Research Papers (coming soon)
Recommended Journal Papers
Brief History of Gustavus Hinrichs, Discoverer of the DERECHO (coming soon)

Technical Training Links

National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Science and Education