Article: SOUTHLAND WILL SIZZLE UNTIL TUESDAY HEAT: HEALTH WARNINGS ISSUED FOR KIDS, ELDERLY, PETS AS TEMPERATURES RISE.(News)

Article: Budget Confusion, Dismissal Leave Weather Service Uneasy; Director's Removal Followed Breakdown of Plan to Close 80 Field Offices
The Washington Post;  July 14, 1997 ;     700+ words ......of the popular head of the National Weather Service, opened a window on budgetary confusion...trying to maintain credible services. Weather Service director Elbert W. "Joe" Friday Jr...conflicting information" provided by the Weather Service had prompted the move. The dismissal...

Article: The Daley Forecast: Better Weather Service; Sun Comes Out After Stormy Overhaul
The Washington Post;  July 28, 1999 ;     587 words ......officials will go to the National Weather Service's Northern Virginia office this morning...said yesterday he has no doubt the Weather Service will deliver. Today's ceremony at...tortuous 10-year effort to modernize the Weather Service, a Commerce agency. It has been a...

Article: Forecast at U.S. Weather Service: Shortage of Funds for Modernization;Planned Radar Network May Lack Essential Computer System
The Washington Post;  March 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ......forecasts are wrong. But the National Weather Service is having trouble trying to do something about it. The weather service, once the world's premier meteorological...ideological battle to "privatize" the weather service, is refusing to invest more money...

Article: Weather Service at Center of Storm
AP Online;  July 10, 2000 ;     680 words ......Writer AP Online 07-10-2000 Weather Service at Center of Storm WASHINGTON (AP) -- From the National Weather Service, the forecast for the New York...competition -- an attempt by the weather service to provide for free the information...

Article: The Weather Service Forecast: New Limits; Private Firms Fear Rising Competition
The Washington Post;  July 18, 2000 ;     510 words ...From the National Weather Service, the forecast for the New York Mets...unwelcome competition--an attempt by the weather service to provide for free the information they sell. The weather service acknowledged that the "site-specific...

Article: Excitement in the air. (use of Doppler radars at National Weather Service)
Weatherwise;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......American weather history, and National Weather Service director Joe Friday readily recalls...more powerful Doppler radars the Weather Service is installing see those hidden storm...place and 53 more on the way, the Weather Service (with the Federal Aviation Administration...

Article: National Weather Service Nervously Awaits Forecast on Its Future
The Washington Post;  October 14, 1997 ;     665 words ...The National Weather Service is struggling through a storm...director of the Air Force Air Weather Service was asked to evaluate the civilian...Friday's departure "has left the Weather Service in shambles and the morale of...

Article: Budget Shortfall Prompts Forecasts of Turbulence at Weather Service
The Washington Post;  April 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......million budget shortfall at the National Weather Service, four senior weather officials and...obtained and released by the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union...could be harmed. "We have given the Weather Service guidelines on how to take the reductions...

Article: BUDGET CUTS SQUEEZE WEATHER SERVICE.(FRONT)
The Virginian Pilot;  April 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ......HOUSTON -- The director of the National Weather Service warned Wednesday that his agency may...I cannot continue to operate the Weather Service next year unless we do drastic things...We certainly cannot operate the Weather Service we had planned.'' A former head of...

Article: National Weather Service hit by political, economic storms Forecasting improvements may be delayed if money problems continue
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 15, 1997 ;     453 words ...The National Weather Service is struggling through a storm...director of the Air Force Air Weather Service, was asked to evaluate the civilian...Friday's departure "has left the weather service in shambles and the morale of...

Article: Savanna's record a mistake, weather service says
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  January 7, 1999 ;     288 words ...Savanna's record a mistake, weather service says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Savanna...turned out to be brief. The National Weather Service reported Wednesday that an employee...certified equipment, and was put on the weather service's information wire in error, said...

Article: A gathering cloud for the Weather Service
Oakland Tribune;  April 24, 2005 ;     299 words ......weather forecast, visit the National Weather Service's very good Web site -- www.nws.noaa...could be in danger, along with other Weather Service functions, under a bill introduced...The measure would bar the National Weather Service from providing, or assisting other...

Article: DON'T HAMSTRING THE WEATHER SERVICE.(Commentary/Editorial)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 25, 2005 ;     210 words ......forecast, you can go to the National Weather Service's Web site - www.nws.noaa.gov - click...could be in danger, along with other Weather Service functions, under a bill introduced...The measure would bar the National Weather Service from providing, or assisting other...

Article: His Forecast Is for Change; Former Air Force General Guides Last Phase of Weather Service's Modernization
The Washington Post;  May 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Consider the Air Force's Air Weather Service: In the early 1990s, its staff...morale at the civilian National Weather Service, senior officials at the Commerce...Department, which includes the Weather Service, turned to Kelly for help...