Resources
- Mandatory training in order to become an official NWS Weather Spotter
- On-line SKYWARN Spotter Training (MetEd)
- Register for a MetEd account (free), and then search for “Skywarn Spotter Training”. There are 3 courses you will need to complete:
- Skywarn Spotter Registration
- Role of the Skywarn Spotter
- Skywarn Spotter Convective Basics
- Once you do this, the local NWS office should get notified that you completed the training and they will get back to you
- Register for a MetEd account (free), and then search for “Skywarn Spotter Training”. There are 3 courses you will need to complete:
- On-line SKYWARN Spotter Training (MetEd)
- Other weather spotter training resources
- NWS Bay Area Specific Storm Spotter Training
- A Guide to Being a SKYWARNTM Spotter (large file 26mb)
- NWS Basic Storm Spotter Field Guide
- NWS Advanced Storm Spotter Field Guide
- Storm Spotter Glossary
- An Introduction to Storm Observing and Reporting
- JetStream – An Online School for Weather
- Printable Cloud Chart
- Other useful resources
- NWS Bay Area Website
- Current weather alerts issued by the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Monterey, CA
- SF Bay Area Skywarn Pacificon 2025 Forum presentation
- National SKYWARN® weather spotter program
- Weather Ready Nation
- NWS Wireless Emergency Alerts
- NOAA Weather Radio
- How to get your Amateur Radio license
- Storm Summaries or Notable Weather Events
- Bay Area Storm Index (BASI, top 20) and BASI Archive (sorted by date) (Jan Null)
- California Tornado Statistics (Jan Null)
- A Diablo Winds Primer (Jan Null)
- California power outages, listed by county
- KMUX Weather Radar
- (Old) NWS Monterey Weather Spotter Program — still a lot of good info there!