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A Local Storm Report (LSR) is transmitted by the National Weather Service (NWS) when it receives significant information from storm spotters, such as amateur radio operators, storm chasers, law enforcement officials, civil defense (now emergency management) personnel, firefighters, EMTs or public citizens, about severe weather conditions in their warning responsibility area (County Warning ...
AccuWeather Forecast Center, 2007. AccuWeather provides weather forecasts, warnings, and a handful of other weather-related services. The company is best known for the eponymous website, app, and TV channel. Their brand is marketed as being more accurate than competitors, as is implied by their name, however there is mixed scientific research ...
Weather Underground is a commercial weather service providing real-time weather information over the Internet. It provides weather reports for most major cities around the world on its Web site, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and third-party sites.
The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts. They also issue severe weather warnings, gather weather observations, and ...
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton.
DTN sells automated weather stations that can be set up at a member's location to collect local meteorological data, which DTN then uses to produce hyper-local reports and forecasts. Roughly 5,500 stations operate from DTN member farms, part of the company's larger 22,500-station North American weather station network.
The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was launched in Massachusetts in 1937, which prompted a switch from routine aircraft observation to radiosondes within two years. The Bureau prohibited the word "tornado" from being used in any of its weather products out of concern for inciting panic (a move contradicted in its intentions by the high death tolls in past tornado outbreaks due to the lack of ...
This is a list of notable weather services. Criteria for inclusion: ... Name Location Coverage Type NBC Weather Plus: United States: Global: TV The Weather Channel: