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The Battlefield Mall was packed with people on Saturday, February 25th as the Springfield National Weather Service Forecast Office (Steve Runnels KD4OPZ pictured next to their awesome tornado simulator) along with local media outlets and A.R.E.S. and C.E.R.T. volunteers hosted this year’s Severe Weather Awareness Expo. Several of our Skywarn spotters along with other local […]

Greene County A.R.E.S. will be hosting a 2-Saturday beginner’s Technician class on Saturday, April 8th and Saturday, April 15th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a break for lunch up in Springfield. Classes will be held at the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation (O.A.C.A.C.) central office at 215 S. Barnes Ave. just south of  Chestnut […]

All spotter training classes for Taney County, Stone County and Greene County Missouri have been completed for 2017. For more information about future classes, please visit: www.weather.gov/sgf 

Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Battlefield Mall, Springfield, Missouri Battlefield Mall will host the 2017 Severe Weather Awareness Expo along with the National Weather Service and other local agencies and partners to better equip Southwest Missouri communities to prepare for the upcoming severe weather season of tornadoes, flash flooding and […]

January 2017 was a month with above normal temperatures here in the Ozarks.  The National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri says that 3 out of 4 automated stations had the top 10 warmest January’s with Springfield coming in at number 11. Above normal precipitation occurred over the western part of the area, while drier than normal […]

The National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri has posted its first listing of scheduled Spotter Training Classes for 2017. This listing is subject to change, so check it often. This listing is in the format of a Google Calendar which you can view below. This calendar has been merged into the Southwest Missouri Regional Skywarn […]

The Cox Ham Radio task force and the Republic Repeater Group invites you to the 2017 Winter Field Day on Saturday, January 28, 2017, beginning at 8:00 a.m.  The turn out and amount of interest will determine how long they will stay operational throughout the day. The group will be operating out of the Cox Mobile […]

Missouri House Bill 136, known as the Missouri Amateur Radio Parity Act, is a state-level version of the federal Amateur Radio Parity Act that the A.R.R.L. has been pushing for some time now. If passed, this bill would serve to ease Homeowner’s Association (HOA) / Property Owner’s Association (POA) rules as well as other municipal […]

2016 was a year with well above normal temperatures across the area, with Springfield, Joplin and West Plains all in the top 10 warmest years on record.  Vichy was 11th warmest.  In fact, Springfield and West Plains both only had one month of the year with below normal temperatures (May). All but the far southeast […]