WFO Glasgow, MT, Intern Mark Pellerito shows students a weather balloon during a recent presentation at one of the few remaining prairie schoolhouses in the country. The Van Norman school in Garfield County, MT, has four students, ranging in grades from Kindergarten through 6th grade. Pellerito brought several scientific experiments for the kids to work with hands on, including a tornado chamber, static electricity, a cartesian diver and solar power. He also gave a presentation on weather safety, that included video of various severe storms and flooding that had the kids asking for more. Pellerito reports it's a bit of a challenge to try and make a presentation that works well for the wide range of ages, but this is a daily ordeal for the school's teacher, Judy Miller.

Weather Forecast Office El Paso/Santa Teresa, TX, participated in the Amigo Airshow in El Paso October 22-23, 2004. More than 55,000 people attended the airshow, and approximately 800 people visited the NWS booth, staffed by senior forecasters Tom Bird and Dave Hefner, journey forecasters Mike Langevin and Tony Reynes, intern Mike Hardiman, and Warning Coordination Meteorologist John Fausett. The staff handed out preparedness and safety brochures, answered weather and NWS related questions, scheduled school talks and office tours, and promoted the office's new Spanish language NOAA Weather Radio station. Photo by Lead Forecaster Greg Lundeen.

NCEP Director Louis Uccellini, pins on captain's insignia for newly-promoted NOAA Corps Captain Sean R. White. Uccellini performed the ceremony with the collar insignia handed down to Commander White several weeks earlier from Rear Adm. Samuel P. De Bow, Jr., NOAA, Director of the NOAA Corps.

Lead Forecaster John Woynick (left) and Brig. Gen. D.L. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), NWS Director, have an extended discussion of IFPS and NWS model guidance during Johnson's recent visit to the Topeka, KS, Weather Forecast Office (WFO). Photo by Mike Akulow, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, WFO Topeka.

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