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In return, the NWS provides its own raw weather data to anyone who wants the information, and publishes its own public-facing weather reports; virtually every private forecast relies on freely ...

The balloons provide critical data for computer models that forecasters use to predict the weather, raising the likelihood that projections will be more unreliable. One NWS forecast office ...

could impact the ability of the NWS to track and maintain the weather data used to forecast and provide severe weather warnings, Hirn said. Many essential functions, such as satellite information ...

Balloon launches are time-intensive tasks, and many local offices were forced to cut back after the Trump administration trimmed the size of NWS ... forecast office near Omaha deployed a special ...

The National Weather ... and forecast alerts in languages other than English, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. Earlier this month, NWS suspended ...