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Title: Weather Forecasting - Have Temperature Forecasts Improved? An Interim Report
Author: Samuel I. Hyman
Source: American Gas Association 1979
Year Published: 1979
Abstract: The predecessor of the National Weather Service was First established in the early 1870s to forecast the weather at Rochester. New York. The storms on Lake Ontario were such as to cause severe economic losses to shipping across Lake Ontario as well as to the high value agriculture in the Northwestern part of New York State. To this day. the National Weather Service has been mandated by the Congress to serve special interests. These are air and marine transportation, and agriculture. In consequence, for an annual budget of approximately 1 per capita, the Weather Service maintains observation points at the major airports of the United States and at a few city stations, and issues forecasts specialized for agriculture, airlines and shipping, and generalized for the general public.

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