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In one form or another, the National Weather Service has been around for over 135 years now.  Originally part of the War Department’s Signal Corps, the first meteorologists of the NWS issued their first forecast on November 1, 1870.   When you read the forecast, it [...]

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In the United States, the primary federal agency charged with monitoring and forecasting the weather is, of course, the National Weather Service.  The NWS is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, which actually tells us something about how the government perceives the significance of weather–they [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 688 of Weather Break.
In the United States, the primary federal agency charged with monitoring and forecasting the weather is, of course, the National Weather Service.  The NWS is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, which actually tells us something about how the government perceives the significance of weather–they [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 618 of Weather Break.
In one form or another, the National Weather Service has been around for over 135 years now.  Originally part of the War Department’s Signal Corps, the first meteorologists of the NWS issued their first forecast on November 1, 1870.   When you read the forecast, it [...]

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When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange codes [...]

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