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Outreach Page
Welcome to the outreach page from The National Weather Service in Wilmington North Carolina. One of NOAA's cross cutting priorities is Environmental Literacy, Outreach, and Education. Several staff members in the office participate in all sorts of activiites from visiting schools to working an information booth at local festivals.

Schedule of upcoming events:
*May 12th/13th Ogden Elementary
*See us at the Florence Air Show, May 24th, Florence, SC
To request a speaker via email...contact the
ilm.webmaster@noaa.gov

Or call the office during normal business hours from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM at 910-762-4289
Quick Links 2007:
Blue Crab Festival
Wrightsville Beach Elementary
YMCA Mens Club
Kohls Cares for Kids
Coastal Legacy Workshop
Quick Links 2008:
Rachel Freeman Elementary School
Seaside Elementary School
South Topsail Elementary School
Seaside Elementary School
North Topsail Elementary School
Landfall Community Response Team
Coastal Carolina Air Show
Earth Day Celebration
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On May 19, 2007...we attended the Blue Crab Festival in Little River South Carolina. We spoke to several hundred folks...and a good time was had by all. Click on the images to the right for a closer look.
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On June 6, 2007 we visited Wrightsville Beach Elementary School. We teamed with The New Hanover County Department of Aging and The Red Cross to give a comprehensive presentation about hurricane preparation.
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The National Weather Service visited the YMCA mens club on June 15, 2007.
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On June 16, 2007 Mike Ross and Nicholas Younghaus attended the Kohls Cares for Kids celebrationa.
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On Thursday June 29, 2007 we attended the Coastal Legacy Workshop in Manteo North Carolina.
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Civil Air Patrol tour.
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On January 28, 2008 Erik Heden gave a presentation to Rachel Freeman Elementary School in Wilmington.
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On Jan 14, 2008 Steve Pfaff gave a presentation to a group of 50 Junior Lifeguard members at Seaside Elementary in Garden City, SC. Steve presented information about all types of weather that affects the beach environment including thunderstorms and rip currents. After the presentation, members of the junior guard were selected to come up to the stage and answer 10 questions. This was the seventh year that Steve assisted Duke Brown, Director of the Seaside Elementary Junior Lifeguard group, by providing weather training.
A picture of Steve Pfaff at Seaside Elementary School
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A picture of Norman at South Topsail Elementary School
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A picture of Stephen Keeber at North Topsail Elementary School
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On Friday April 4, 2008 members of the Landfall Community Response Team visited the office.
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The weekend of April 19th and 20th we were at the Coastal Carolina Air Show. We handed out weather safety information and answered any questions pertaining to the weather.

The free brochures we handed out ranged from rip currents to thunderstorm safety to tornado safety, to name a few. Our most popular handouts were hurricane tracking charts and a sky watcher chart detailing the different cloud types. For the younger kids we handed out Owlie Skywarn, which are weather coloring books. We emphasized our local website as a one stop place for weather information.

In addition to the handouts, we debuted our mobile weather station which gave live temperature, wind speed, and wind gust information from our booth. The Air Show drew around 100,000 people and we handed out over 1,000 brochures.

Steve Pfaff, Glenn Cox, and Erik Heden at the Coastal Carolina Air Show Doug Hoehler at the Coastal Carolina Air Show Dave Loewenthal at the Coastal Carolina Air Show Ron at the Coastal Carolina Air Show
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On April 26th we were at the Lower Cape Fear celebration of Earth Day at Hugh McRae Park in Wilmington, NC.

We partnered with another NOAA agency, North Carolina's Sea Grant, who was represented by Lisa Humphrey. Working with Lisa we tailored our information toward coastal impacts such as Rip Currents.

The estimated crowd for the Earth Day event was over 1,000 people and we handed out over 100 brochures on weather safety.

Ron Steve and Mark Bacon at Hugh McRae Park, Earth Day 2008 Lisa Humphrey at Hugh McRae Park, Earth Day 2008 Erik Heden at Hugh McRae Park, Earth Day 2008 Erik Heden, Rachel Gross-Zouzias, and Family/Friends at Hugh McRae Park, Earth Day 2008
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Weather Forecast Office, Wilmington NC
2015 Gardner Drive
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 762-4289


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