Weather-Ready Nation
Scout Event
January 12, 2025
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Two Poydras St. New Orleans
7:00am to 12:00pm Central Time
This year's Weather-Ready Nation Scout Event is proudly sponsored by BAE Systems
Building a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN)
Earn your Weather-Ready Nation Patch! Building a Weather-Ready Nation starts with YOU! Being prepared and being a leader within your home or community for the next extreme weather event, may just save your life and those you love!
Have your troop leader (or adult sponsor) register all the scouts from your troop who want to participate via the following sign up pages:
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is offering this *FREE* event to Girl Scouts and Scouts BSA, ages 10 and up. This is an opportunity to earn the "Weather-Ready Nation" patch (as pictured above). Click here to learn more about the American Meteorological Society.
The program will teach participants more about meteorology as well as give them an understanding of the weather phenomena that affects their local area and the knowledge to prepare for weather-related emergencies.
The Weather-Ready Nation patch requirements are designed so Scouts BSA are able to earn the Weather Merit Badge in its entirety, as well as complete a couple of the Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge requirements.
Girl Scouts will be able to apply the concepts learned that day towards various STEM related patches. Senior Girl Scouts will also learn concepts that can be used towards the "Sky" Patch
At least two (2) National Weather Service forecasters, Emergency Managers, or other AMS professionals with meteorological/emergency management experience will lead scouts through a series of workshop tables. At each of these tables leaders will help the scouts work thorugh a different topic of the 2025 Weather-Ready Nation Scout Event Workbook.
Scouts will discuss weather and climate science, disaster preparedness and safety, and emergency management with these professionals -- a rare opportunity for any scout interested in learning more about the world of meteorology!
Set Up For the Event: Download the Workbook
This year, the Weather-Ready Nation Scout Event Workbook will be available for download before the event -- please click the down arrow icon in the image below to download your copy.
2017 AMS in Seattle Recap
Video Courtesy of WeatherNation
Above: Photos from 2016 WeatherReady Nation Scout Event in New Orleans.
Attention Scouts and Parents!! Do you just love the weather? Catch yourself staring at radar loops or watching lightning light up the sky? Join the "Weather Band" enthusiast club and connect directly with weather, water, and climate experts. Learn more at: https://amsweatherband.org/
