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The National Weather Service (NWS), once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States government.
Read More at Wikipedia ›National Weather Service director Jack Hayes has stepped down amid an investigation into claims his organization misappropriated almost $44 million of taxpayers' money, msnbc.
com reported late Sunday.According to the report, Hayes vacated his position Friday, following the release of an audit report concerning nine contracts worth a maximum of $1.6 billion that provided incentives for good work.It was claimed that some bonuses and extensions were provided to contractors without justification.Sen. Olympia Snowe, the ranking member of Washington's Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard subcommittee, said in a statement, "The deeply troubling revelation that senior staff at the National Weather Service ... have been conducting improper and potentially illegal transfers of taxpayers' money is unacceptable."While the director of the National Weather Service has stepped down, there are many more remaining questions which require answers from both National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...Tropical Storm Beryl moved across northeastern Florida early Monday, bringing drenching rains, driving winds and the threat of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coas...
Tropical Storm Beryl moved across northeastern Florida early Monday, bringing drenching rains, driving winds and the threat of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coas...
How hot was it at Sunday's Indianapolis 500? Depends on whom you ask.Track officials announced just before 2:30 p.m. that the temperature had hit 93 degrees, which w...
A small plane that crashed early Saturday at a municipal airport in southern Utah killed all four people on board, authorities said.The downed single-engine Cessna 1...
Wildfires cast a pall over Memorial Day weekend in parts of the West Friday as smoke from a massive New Mexico blaze prompted widespread air-quality warnings and hig...
Forecasters say a cluster of storms gaining strength near the Southeast coast is moving west and is expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over Memorial Day weekend...
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength early Satu...
Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico that has destroyed a dozen cabins and spread smoke across the state, prompting holiday weeken...
In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping...
A wind-driven wildfire that erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California border and destroyed two homes was moving away from houses Wednesday, authorit...
A fast-moving wildfire erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California line and destroyed two homes Tuesday but no injuries were reported and the danger f...
Warm, dry weather hindered hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze in northern Colorado that federal officials say started with a camp stove.The fire, which has gr...
A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview...
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A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview...
The remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl spun off a tornado that destroyed three homes and damaged dozens of others near the North Carolina coast Wednesday as the system...
Residents along the Southeast coast were warned of possible flooding Tuesday from former Tropical Storm Beryl that left up to 10 inches of rain in northern Florida a...
A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed...
The former tropical storm Beryl was expected to bring up to 10 inches of rain to parts of the southeast coast before it heads out to sea again, where it could regain...
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