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Article: National Weather Service Nervously Awaits Forecast on Its Future
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 14, 1997
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The National Weather Service is struggling through a storm
that brings rising political pressures and tightening purse strings.
The agency's director is already a casualty and long-term
modernization efforts could be slowed.
The long-term forecast for the agency may depend on an
independent review by retired Brig. Gen. Jack Kelly. The former
director of the Air Force Air Weather Service was asked to evaluate
the civilian agency in June, when longtime director Elbert W. Friday
Jr. was reassigned. The report is expected later this month.
While details of the review are not yet available, the public
is unlikely to notice major changes in the way weather forecasts and
warnings are ...