As temperatures fall below zero, Spokane boosts beds for homeless
With temperatures dipping near or below zero, city officials are expanding beds available to the homeless. About 100 additional shelter beds above and beyond the city's normal capacity are being made ...
There goes the sun: Get ready for some snow in Spokane
After a stretch of sunny, cold weather, clouds and snow are making their way back to the Inland Northwest. The Friday morning commute could be slick with up to an inch snow overnight Thursday and a ...
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There goes the sun: Get ready for some snow in Spokane
according to the National Weather Service. “It will be a snowy commute,” said Laurie Nisbet, a weather service meteorologist. “Get ready to drive in it. We haven’t seen snow in a while.” ...
How Could the Weather Service Change Under Trump?
President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that ...
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Why Private Forecasting Companies Can't Replace the National Weather Service
NOAA partners with private sector, academia, nonprofits and many others around the world to ensure that everyone has the best information to produce the most robust weather forecasts. Private weather ...
NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it
NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by ...
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New cold weather terminology from National Weather Service
The National Weather Service has simplified winter weather alerts. The biggest changes are the renaming of the wind chill watches and warnings and the wind chill advisories.The wind chill watch ...
Private companies couldn't match NOAA's vast public weather data powers
A lot of the weather information Americans rely on starts with real-time data collected by NOAA satellites, airplanes, ...
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Freeze warning, cold advisory? Be familiar with these official winter weather terms
Between 1979 and 1999, 124 people in Florida have died from cold, according to the National Weather Service. In December 1989, 25 Floridians died from hypothermia. That doesn't include those who ...
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National Weather Service introduces new Cold Weather Advisory
ST. LOUIS – The National Weather Service has updated its advisory system to better reflect dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills. This new ‘Cold Weather Advisory’ replaces the ...
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Life-saving weather warnings are on the line as Trump and DOGE target America’s forecasting agency
Even before federal employees at the National Weather Service received so-called buyout offers this week, America’s public forecasting agency was suffering its lowest staffing in decades.
Take a peek inside the National Weather Service
Severe Weather Awareness Week usually precedes the severe weather. Not this year. The earliest tornado in Minnesota history was confirmed near Princeton and Zimmerman on March 6. Another was ...