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AWS Convergence
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Press ReleasesPress > April 18, 2006 Release MEMA, WJLA Will Provide WeatherBug® Software To Public and Private Schools in Maryland Reistertown, MD – April 18, 2006 – Every school in Maryland will have access to real-time hazardous weather warnings and be able to track approaching storms with software being distributed by the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). 
MEMA will distribute ten copies and licenses for WeatherBug® Plus™ to each public and private school in Maryland at no cost to the schools. In addition to providing administrators with safety-related weather information, the program can be used in classrooms to give students hands-on access to weather information. In the Washington, D.C., area, MEMA will distribute WeatherBug Plus in partnership with WJLA-TV. “Especially in the spring, sudden severe weather is a concern for administrators responsible for students’ safety,” said Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., “This program will give school officials another decision-making tool. In the classroom, it will help students learn about weather and meteorology.” MEMA, which is part of the Maryland Military Department, is responsible for the state’s preparedness for and response to disasters. Under a contract with WeatherBug, MEMA provides WeatherBug products to local emergency management agencies statewide. Combined with other specialized software that allows emergency managers to anticipate storm tracks and flooding, the WeatherBug products are tools for public safety planning. “We are pleased to be able to make this software available to Maryland schools,” said John W. Droneburg, director of MEMA. “In the classroom, it will raise student awareness of weather and the dangers of hazardous weather. And it has the potential to give administrators an early warning when dangerous weather is in the area.” Droneburg announced the distribution of WeatherBug software to schools during the annual Severe Storms Awareness Conference in Columbia. The conference, in its twenty-first year, brings together weather and emergency management experts and local emergency managers and responders to increase awareness and preparedness in the state. The conference was to be addressed by Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, R. David Paulison, recently nominated as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and David L. Johnson, director of the National Weather Service. WeatherBug has 8,000 weather tracking stations supplying live, streaming data and over 1,000 cameras across the United States. There are 650 stations in the Washington, D.C. area and 475 in Maryland statewide. About WeatherBug®WeatherBug ensures that individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies receive the most precise live weather information, the most relevant weather reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property, lives and to plan with confidence. With 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and over 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest exclusive weather network in the world. The live, local weather conditions are delivered to millions of consumers via the Internet and mobile devices, more than 100 state and local government agencies including the National Weather Service, and to broadcast television stations, schools, and businesses. As such, WeatherBug is the #1 distributor of severe weather alerts to the public. WeatherBug data is unique as it is the only live, neighborhood weather available anywhere. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. Source: Press Contact:Debra Eisenburg Alyce Menton |
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