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To develop/build on national effectiveness, resilience, response and communication before, during and after a severe weather event.

After completing this course you will be able to:

• describe the impacts of severe weather on both the customer and the end user;
• target warnings to the end user, with an understanding of the decisions taken on receipt of the warning by that user;
• develop plans and design a method of attributing confidence to a warning;
• organise regular discussions with stakeholders to know what actions they take, and to practise their severe weather plans;
• develop a system to continually collect and maintain weather data;
• communicate before, during and after the event;
• issue warnings with regular updates and amendments if necessary, by a variety of methods including social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc), web, email, phone calls, etc;
• investigate the concept of a Public Weather Service Advisor;
• broadcast confidently and directly to the media;
• identify and adopt a business continuity plan;
• securely archive warnings.