When we view data, sometimes we notice contamination and changes in data, especially further out along the edges of the radar’s vision. Some of those gaps don’t overlap, creating radar holes. See those colored circles? That’s a radar hole, where there is very limited or negligible […]
A representative for the Federal Emergency Management Agency has confirmed to GWES dates for a national test of both the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts. The live test of both systems is planned to take place on October 4, with a backup test date […]
The world of free and open weather information distribution is undergoing a major transformation. In a groundbreaking announcement, the Global Weather & EAS Society has revealed its latest collaboration with the renowned Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM), led by Daryl Herzmann, to bring the official IEMBot accounts […]
FEMA is to announce the date of this year’s national EAS test, according to an article published by Radio World. The publication confirms that FEMA will conduct a national test of the Emergency Alert System, along with its mobile Wireless Emergency Alerts counterpart later this year. […]
Sources from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed to radio news outlet Inside Radio that a national Emergency Alert System (EAS) test will occur this year. This comes after a year-long pause in 2022. In the article posted by Inside Radio, the FCC has not […]
It’s been a bit of a gap between the third edition and this one, but oh well! A PEP Hurricane Warning? Guam’s EAS is quite…interesting. Recently, SOMEBODY issued a Hurricane Warning, but it was issued as “Primary Entry Point” (PEP). We’ve never really seen anything like […]
It all started with the potential for severe weather appearing on long-range weather models. Suddenly, everything changed within a matter of days, and in some cases, hours. In this extended edition of Inside Look, we examine each step in covering this rapidly intensifying system. Initial Warning […]
On March 14th, 2023, an incident within the EAS Relay Network resulted in an Emergency Action Notification (EAN) being received and logged within ERN log channels from a participant. ERN has traced back the origination to a monitor with noaaweatherradio.org. This monitor used to be maintained […]
The Global Weather & EAS Society has come a long way in it’s history since 2015. This year, on March 16th 2023, we are celebrating our 6th year on our Discord server. We are also happy to report that we have seen our biggest growth in […]
The Global Weather & EAS Society released it’s biggest changes to the look of the community in it’s history on Tuesday. A late night vote within the GWES staff ended in the approval to terminate all of our old branding, in favor of the new one. […]
