national weather service
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Alaska Automated Its Weather Stations And Created A Snow Data Disaster
Twice a day at National Weather Service Offices nationwide, personnel release weather balloons to measure atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed. In Nome, Alaska, Bob TenEyck or his partner would do that at 3 a.m., a few hours after measuring the snow depth and snowfall. For 112 years, these snow measurements in Nome were…
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The High-Tech Sensors That Keep Track Of LA’s Weather
When Dallas Raines or the Times’ weather page reports that it was 33C in Los Angeles yesterday, their data likely come from one source: the National Weather Service’s downtown Los Angeles station on the University of Southern California (USC) campus.