Personally I think your right, I'm curious to know "what" they're testing for since like you said they already do the 1st Saturday tornado tests. It's some kind of info grab, but for what?
The month of March is always Severe Weather Awareness. Participating states pick their week then it's up to the county/municipality/institution/business to carry out the drill based on SOP's. This is nothing new. Using homeland security as a name, yea, that threw me off, but I think there is adequate explanation in other comments.
Southern States probably are in March. The storms that bring severe weather mid Ohio and south are usually still snow here. I mean its not completely unheard of but most winters it isnt until mid April when we start seeing the warmer storms that bring severe weather.
This year though we did see some thunderstorms in February. But its back to cold and snow now. It was 15 this morning with a high of 34, 1-3 inches forecast tomorrow and enough to cover the grass yesterday. Its not this year but the lakes are usually still ice covered (with shanties still up) and 2 to 3 feet of frost in the ground.
What's interesting is that my friend said he was the only one in the office that got the message. Majority of people there live in Wayne County but only he got it. So I'm wondering why they're using a selective group.
Personally I think your right, I'm curious to know "what" they're testing for since like you said they already do the 1st Saturday tornado tests. It's some kind of info grab, but for what?
The month of March is always Severe Weather Awareness. Participating states pick their week then it's up to the county/municipality/institution/business to carry out the drill based on SOP's. This is nothing new. Using homeland security as a name, yea, that threw me off, but I think there is adequate explanation in other comments.
We dont do this until April in Michigan.
I'm learning from this thread kek. I thought it was all done in March. Maybe I need to research this more, just for curiosity's sake.
Southern States probably are in March. The storms that bring severe weather mid Ohio and south are usually still snow here. I mean its not completely unheard of but most winters it isnt until mid April when we start seeing the warmer storms that bring severe weather.
This year though we did see some thunderstorms in February. But its back to cold and snow now. It was 15 this morning with a high of 34, 1-3 inches forecast tomorrow and enough to cover the grass yesterday. Its not this year but the lakes are usually still ice covered (with shanties still up) and 2 to 3 feet of frost in the ground.
What's interesting is that my friend said he was the only one in the office that got the message. Majority of people there live in Wayne County but only he got it. So I'm wondering why they're using a selective group.
Hmmm.... ok yea that is interesting. I would think something like that would be county wide.