The National Weather Service works to improve weather resilience within the Deaf community

An operational shift at the National Weather Service (NWS) is better meeting the needs of the American public, including vulnerable populations, and is building a Weather-Ready Nation. Part of that shift includes learning from communities how agency-generated information was used to stay safe from weather, water, and climate-related hazards during a weather event. One of those events happened in 2010 and for the last decade, two NWS meteorologists with a unique set of skills have been working with the Deaf and hard of hearing community to ensure they are weather-ready.