The head of the National Weather Service from Washington DC. will be in the territory at the end of this month for the annual meeting of managers of US National Weather Services in the US Pacific.
The meeting is from August 26-28 and will have managers from Hawaii, Guam. Northern Marianas and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Meteorologist in Charge at the Pago Pago National Weather Service Elinor Lutu McMoore says this will be the first time that a head of the National Weather Service and several of the managers from the Pacific will be visiting American Samoa.
She says the meeting will focus on improvements in the work of national weather offices, facilities and funding. The group is to pay a courtesy visit to Governor Lolo.
In other news, Lutu McMoore has just returned from a meeting of the Pacific Meteorological Council held last week in Samoa. She found the sharing of expertise and knowledge at the meeting valuable and was happy with the inclusion of the media.
She said she reminded the representative from regional broadcaster, Radio New Zealand International, about the differences in terminology for Samoa and American Samoa during cyclones.
RNZI provides up-to-date information to the islands during cyclones .
Lutu McMoore observed that meteorology is still a male dominated field in most of the islands, and she appreciates that at the Pago Pago National Weather Service there is an equal distributions of male and female employees, that is five men and five women.
