body armor or none at all.

Today, weather and climate professionals throughout the state are meeting in Frankfort for the Kentucky Climate Services Summit.

This is the first year for the conference and hopes to improve public safety and economic efficiency through better coordination and collaboration among weather and climate service providers.

>> We've got that too deadly major disasters in One that was severe weather related this catastrophic tornado outbreak of December 2021 and then more recently the floods of 2 years ago and eastern Kentucky that killed dozens of people.

It seems we're getting an uptick in the extreme number of big events in Kentucky, whether it's flooding, whether it's tornadoes as population increases, even rule areas.

We have to find ways to mitigate those disasters.

Whether there one related, whether they are severe weather related.

So it's important to have these these conversations and collaboration is with other folks, including the boat with know where the National Weather Service on how to better prepare for that next natural disaster that we know is going to occur.

>> The conference continues tomorrow.

Organizers hope to