An arctic cold front will impact the Great Lakes, Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Snow showers and squalls will accompany this system with increasing winds and falling temperatures. Damaging wind gusts may result in tree damage and power outages. Meanwhile, moisture returns for the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii this weekend with both coverage and intensity of rainfall and higher elevation snows. Read More >
| YEAR | HISTORY OF THE NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE |
|---|---|
| 1849 | Weather alerts and information are distributed via telegraph wire. |
| 1890 | Weather services transferred from the Signal Service to the newly formed U.S. Weather Bureau under the Department of Agriculture. |
| 1928 | Teletype replaces telegraph for weather distribution. |
| 1940 | U.S. Weather Bureau transferred to Department of Commerce. |
| 1970 | U.S. Weather Bureau renamed National Weather Service (NWS). |
| 1999 | NWS develops and implements leased NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) using satellite distribution to States and television and radio broadcasters. |
| 2003 | NWWS implements Internet access for all user subscriptions (both public and private). |
| 2015 | NWS enterprise architecture NWWS replaces the leased legacy NWWS. |
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