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This Site Brings Me Back to the Glory Days of 'Local on the 8s' Weather Channel Forecasts

The Weather Channel, for the most part, looked like a normal TV station—until the local forecast would show up. Then it became a pixelated data dump of weather information served over a funky piano ...
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NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it

A forecaster monitors incoming data for Hurricane Irma in 2017 at the National Hurricane Center, part of the NOAA. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images All of that information goes into ...
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its ...