NWS Climate Services for Pre-Disaster Mitigation Planning: A model used in Montana
The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program lists 11 planning goals in creating a PDM plan, all of which the National Weather Service can assist local and state jurisdictions with. This presentation will explain how the NWS can assist in each of those goals, and help gather the relevant weather related information needed. It will also discuss many of the mitigation strategies that the local NWS offices can help with, including examples of mitigation activities that were completed without any PDM grant funding. While the presentation will look at a model used in Montana, the components are generally applicable anywhere throughout the United States and it's territories.