Great Lakes And On The Seacoast By Magnetic

Weather bureau was established with the mission to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the states and territories for giving notice on the northern Great lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals of the approach and force of storms the agency was placed under the secretary of War because military discipline would probably secure the greatest promptness regularity and accuracy in the required observations.



The agency first became a civilian enterprise when it became part of the department of agriculture it would later be moved to the department of commerce the first weather bureau radiosonde was launched in massachusetts in which went on to replace all routine aircraft observation within two years the bureau was renamed the national weather service as part of the environmental science services administration which became the national oceanic and atmospheric administration.



Weather forecast offices send their graphical forecasts to a national server to be compiled in the national digital forecast database this is a collection of sensible weather elements such as maximum and minimum temperature humidity cloud cover probability of precipitation amount of precipitation and wintry precipitation weather type and wind direction and speed In addition to viewing gridded weather data via the internet more advanced users can decode the individual grids which can output and comma separated variable files specific points in the digital database can be accessed using an service these capabilities have greatly increased the audience the NWS has received some criticism from commercial weather vendors for providing graphical forecast data free of charge.