Understanding and Messaging Drought Conditions: Providing Guidance to Stakeholders During a Drought

The purpose of this webinar was to increase awareness and utilization of the new COMET training module that teaches National Weather Service (NWS) operational staff to review the appropriate drought products and tools, then craft effective and regionally-specific drought messaging.The webinar provided NWS employees clear guidance on how to translate NWS and other common drought monitoring and prediction products and improve their communication and messaging to the public.