Weather

Supernova Award Merit Badge (www.scouting.org/STEM)

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Age Guide: G

Prerequisites: Scouts should have  hourly weather observations for at least one full day including temperature, dew point, wind direction, wind speed, air pressure, visibility and precipitation (rain and/or snow) amounts. These can be found at: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/stationobs.shtml   

T.J. Del Santo

T.J. Del Santo is a meteorologist for WPRI-TV and WNAC-TV in Providence.  He has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Atmospheric Science.  His experience includes forecasting for yachts and freighters around the world and many years of weather forecasting in Southern New England.  He has given forecasts of blizzards, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes in his nearly 15 years of forecasting in Southern New England.