Description:

Mesonets provide invaluable services to a wide range of state, regional, and federal organizations. These services include real-time weather observations, historical trend analyses, data interpretations, and value-added products. Value-added products leverage and summarize mesonet data in engaging and accessible formats, including decision-support tools, newsletters, and social media posts, to name a few. This session aims to highlight how mesonets leverage their data-driven services to communicate weather and climate information while also engaging with and supporting the needs of regional stakeholders. We encourage submissions discussing: “end-to-end” processes for creating products, the purpose and need for creating these products, various avenues taken to communicate with and engage stakeholders, and best practices/lessons learned for effective communication and engagement. Additional topics of interest may include the generation of weather event products for targeted audiences (such as real time tracking of a total solar eclipse or total precipitation from tropical systems), educational outreach, and how these weather event products connect larger groups with their mesonet.