COMET Summer Newsletter

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COMET Staff
June 16, 2025

In this issue

Important Announcements

A New MetEd Experience is Now Live!

The COMET team has revamped our renowned MetEd education and training learning platform. We’re thrilled to announce the new experience is now live! Explore these new, robust features on the new MetEd platform today (registering for a new MetEd account is required, as your previous login info will not transfer): 

  • Stronger tools to track your progress 

  • A personalized dashboard

  • Advanced AI to expand your growth opportunities 

  • Enhanced accessibility features

  • Superior functionality and new tools to take learning to the next level

Check out the new MetEd platform by signing up (always free!) today, learn more on the (also new!) MetEd homepage, or take a quick video tour here.

Your Support Matters. Now more than ever.

COMET is celebrating 35 years of building expertise across the geosciences community—from national meteorological and hydrological services, universities, private sector industries, and more. We're here to bolster your education, training, and capacity development goals.

Now, more than ever, your support helps us provide free access to more than 1,000 courses and resources for anyone who needs them. While a portion of MetEd’s cost is funded by our sponsors, we ask that you consider helping us keep MetEd running and growing. If you’ve found value in our courses, curricula, and multimedia resources, please consider making a donation. Your support helps us maintain free access to our wide library of courses and resources that empower weather enthusiasts and professionals alike. 

Please consider making a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation. Thank you so much for supporting our mission to build expertise, together.

Become a COMET MetEd Sponsor!

The Friends of the National Center and COMET are thrilled to announce the expansion of COMET MetEd Sponsorship opportunities! Your organization can demonstrate its commitment to advancing Earth system science education while reaching a highly engaged audience of students, professionals, and enthusiasts as a MetEd sponsor.

Sponsorship starts at $5,000 and includes sponsor recognition perks and more. Learn more about the MetEd sponsorship opportunity here.

ICYMI: COMET Offers Free Storm Spotter Courses 

Storm spotting season is ramping up! Do you want to protect your community from weather hazards? Are you encountering challenges when accessing spotter training in your area? COMET is here to help with our online storm spotter certification courses, developed with the U.S. National Weather Service.

The COMET MetEd SKYWARN® Spotter courses are a great supplement to your face-to-face SKYWARN® Spotter training sessions provided by the NWS. In some areas of the country (check with your local NWS office), these courses are sufficient for certification.

➡️ Learn about the NWS SKYWARN® Storm Spotter Program

➡️ Locate your local WFO here

Features

This is a double-feature edition! Check both features out below. 

What Can COMET Do for You?

COMET is celebrating 35 years of building expertise across the geosciences community—from meteorological services, universities, private sector industries, and more. We're here to bolster your education, training, and capacity development goals. What can we do for you? We’re glad you asked . . . Read more.

Supporting Aviation Customers: COMET + The NWS Aviation Program

Did you know that weather is the leading cause of delays within the U.S. National Airspace? Safe and efficient aviation operations depend on timely, accurate, and clearly explained weather information and forecasts. COMET’s Distance Learning for Aviation (DLAC) is required for all U.S. National Weather Service forecasters . . . Read more.

New COMET MetEd Courses

Here are the latest (free!) COMET MetEd courses and resources from this quarter for your weather, water, and climate education & training needs.

Sign up for your free COMET MetEd account for access to 1,085+ free courses and educational resources across the geosciences. Happy learning!

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COMET News

COMET launched sponsor testing of our new MetEd platform in May. Members across COMET’s sponsors tested the new MetEd platform to provide valuable feedback and insights as we prepared for its public launch on June 2, 2025. A huge thank you to all of our sponsor testers for helping us create the best version of MetEd for our community!

COMET publishes all ASMET courses on MetEd. After 3 years of development with the African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training (ASMET) program, COMET is excited to announce the full release of ASMET 15, or the fifteenth collaboration between ASMET and the COMET Program. Courses from this latest project are now live on MetEd. Congratulations to the teams involved in this great accomplishment! These courses, funded by EUMETSAT, are free and available to all! 

Contact Us

Do you have any questions or feedback for the newsletter? Reach out to [email protected]. For questions or comments regarding the COMET Program or MetEd please contact [email protected].