The annual Hurricane Awareness Tour (HAT) will be making a stop in at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday, May 9. We wanted to extend the invitation to you all to staff an exhibit booth if you’d like. The stop at CLT is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo, and we expect it to be VERY well-attended – the 2017 Raleigh stop set the previous HAT record at 3000 people (during the public tour time, not including the VIPs and school tours), and the NHC expects that we’ll exceed that number at CLT.
More information can be found at our website, www.weather.gov/gsp/hat, including a link to the Exhibitor Registration Form. We hope to update with layout/map information later this week. Also FYI, FLASH (www.flash.org) is sponsoring lunch for all exhibitors and volunteers.
Additionally, if you have any students that would like to volunteer to help during the day (escort school groups, direct traffic, run water or provide relief to exhibitors, etc.), please have them contact me. I don’t have a specific number of college student volunteers I’m looking for…probably 2-4ish, but if there’s interest I can definitely put more to work. 🙂 It will be a long day and a lot of running around, but it would be a HUGE help (and for those students who have interest in NWS employment down the road, we like seeing stuff like this on the resumes! 🙂 ) Any students who are interested would need to let me know by April 1 so I can start working up plans.
Trisha Palmer – NOAA Federal <trisha.palmer@noaa.gov>