City recognized as StormReady by National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) has recognized the City of St. Augustine as being StormReady having carefully reviewed criteria that includes nearly 70 individual evaluation points. Evaluation of the city based on that criteria was conducted in September by the StormReady local advisory board of the NWS in Jacksonville.

Notification of the recognition came in a letter from the NWS to St. Augustine Fire Chief Carlos Aviles who directs the city’s emergency operations during weather events such as hurricanes. The recognition is granted for a three year period and this is the second time the city has been named as a Storm Ready city.

The Storm Ready program encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations.

For more information, visit www.weather.gov/stormready.