(Radio Iowa) – The National Weather Service plans to offer a series of weather spotter classes starting next month. Meteorologist Chad Hahn says they will do in person training and are adding online training as well. “We’re going to be doing some virtual sessions that will be scheduled during the months of March and April that will be during the evening and we might have one or two during the daytime as well so folks could jump on really to learn about what the warning system is about severe weather and how ground truth can help the warning decisions that the forecasters make,” he says.

Hahn says they will have the full schedule out soon.”Definitely encourage folks to check out our website and keep an eye on weather.gov/Des Moines,” Hahn says. “We’ll have some information on there as about those classes and the virtual sessions once they’re scheduled and maybe future in-person sessions as well.”

Hahn says they want to got to some counties they haven’t visit in a while for in person classes and they should start in the first week in March.