Weather Smart Training

Hazardous Weather Training

Online Learning Center BSA

This new training of by the OLC of the BSA is designed to give youth and adult leaders the basics to stay safe in hazardous weather conditions. These conditions that are covered allow units from across the country to stay safe no matter what weather occurs. Their are ten modules to this training and it takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

The ten modules are as follows

• Weather Planning and Preparation
• Lightning
• Cold Weather
• Hot Weather
• Hail
• Flash floods
  
• Tornadoes
• Windstorms
• Traditional Weather Signs
• Hurricanes

This training is no where near being comprehensive but gives the leaders a good general direction to take when dealing with various conditions that have harzardous weather patterns associated with that feature.

Yours in Scouting Service
Mark W
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
Troop 1616