Are you a weather hobbyist?
If you’re looking for weather-centric educational resources, here’s what meteorologists recommend:
The MetEd website (meted.ucar.edu/) provides education and training resources to benefit the operational forecaster community, university atmospheric scientists and students, and anyone interested in learning more about meteorology, weather forecasting and related geoscience topics. MetEd is populated and maintained by the Comet Program, which is part of the University Corp. for Atmospheric Research’s Community Programs.
”Northeast Snowstorms, Volumes I and II” by Paul J. Kocin and Louis W. Uccellini (available at various book sellers nationwide and from the American Meteorological Society).
JetStream, from the NWS (weather.gov/jetstream), provides a great crash course of meteorology fundamentals.
TheWeatherPrediction.com for introductory materials and weather terminology.
A man died in an industrial accident late Saturday at a Berks County battery-making facility.
Fleetwood Police were dispatched at 11:37 p.m. to East Penn Manufacturing for an accident at the smelter building. When they arrived, they found a 30-year-old man had died. The man’s name was not released.
An investigation is being conducted by the Berks County coroner’s officer, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and East Penn Manufacturing.
No further information is being released at this time, Fleetwood police said.
Founded in 1946, East Penn is a leading manufacturer of leadacid batteries and accessories for the automotive, commercial, marine and telecommunication markets. It has about 11,000 employees, and is Berks County’s largest employer.
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