Washington, DC. The U.S. Weather Bureau Station at the National Airport. 1943. Library of Congress After a series of weather related disasters sank hundreds of boats on the Great Lakes, President ...

Talking about the weather is a farming obsession, and a new support team at the national forecaster is set to further feed that passion. A new BOM agriculture decision support unit has been set up to ...

Gathering weather data, such as temperature, winds, and precipitation, was once handled by the Secretary of War. In 1870, the United States Congress tasked military bases to collect weather ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — On Feb. 9, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress, creating the U.S. Weather Bureau, or as we call it today, the National Weather Service. People ...

One of Wisconsin's first scientists, Increase Allen Lapham, became a catalyst of the first Weather Bureau that we now call the National Weather Service. Lapham migrated to Wisconsin from New York in ...

As long as humans have grown food and engaged in warfare, we've tried to forecast the weather—but none have done it better than The National Weather Service (NWS). Officially founded 150 years ago, on ...

Neville Nicholls has received funding from the Australian Research Council for climate change research, and has been involved in the preparation of scientific assessments by the Intergovernmental ...