WW22

This report describes the results of an annual nationwide survey on winter weather in the United States. The 2022 Winter Weather and Society Survey (WW22) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It was fielded June 13 – June 26, 2022, using an online questionnaire that was completed by 1,423 U.S. adults (age 18+) that were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. population as estimated in the U.S. Census. The WW21 survey was designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to winter weather forecasts and warnings. The survey also measured public trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather and climate risk perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and winter weather preparedness. In the WW22 survey, those baseline questions are refined, and respondents’ threshold for winter weather events, the perceived impact of winter weather on their location and daily life and their perceptions of the amount of snow that will fall given certain forecast messaging are all tested. This report briefly describes the methodology, survey data collection, data weighting, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with weighted means and frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses.