He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

Weather satellites along with more general-purpose Earth-observing satellites circling the earth at various altitudes have become an indispensable tool for studying a wide range of phenomena from forest fires to El Niño.

* Weather satellites are primarily used to monitor Earth's weather and climate.

Weather satellites do not measure temperature directly but measure radiances in various wavelength bands.

Weather satellites have been available to infer sea surface temperature ( SST ) information since 1967, with the first global composites occurring during 1970 .< ref > Since 1982, satellites have been increasingly utilized to measure SST and have allowed its spatial and temporal variation to be viewed more fully.

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By receiving geomagnetic storm alerts and warnings ( e. g. by the Space Weather prediction Center ; via Space Weather satellites as SOHO or ACE ), power companies can minimize damage to power transmission equipment, by momentarily disconnecting transformers or by inducing temporary blackouts.

Weather satellites furnish the data necessary to provide early warnings of severe storms.

Weather satellites can be a tremendous asset in such situations.

Tornado warnings are generated via AWIPS then disseminated through various communication routes accessed by the media and various agencies, on the internet, to NOAA satellites, and on NOAA Weather Radio.

Here are some examples: Weather balloon technology has helped firefighters with its short-range radios ; aluminized Mylar in satellites has made sports equipment more insulated ; laser optics systems have transformed the camera industry and life detection missions on other planets help scientists find bacteria in contaminated food.

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In the 1960s Air Force Weather began assimilating weather data collected from meteorological satellites.

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Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged -- which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' -- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather ''.

But serious black comedies ( also known as dramatic comedies or dramedies ) were performing also well, such as The Weather Man, Broken Flowers and Shopgirl.

His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.

Assisting the SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol, and the American Red Cross.

Weather in the area was light winds with scattered clouds, and there were dusk lighting conditions.

They were the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 ; the Weather Bureau, formed in 1870 ; and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, formed in 1871.

By 2001, the various surface analyses done within the National Weather Service were combined into the Unified Surface Analysis, which is issued every six hours and combines the analyses of four different centers.

* In 1952, R & B group The Five Sharps recorded " Stormy Weather " for Jubilee Records, and test pressings were made.

On January 3, 2008, it was reported that The Weather Channel and its assets were put up for sale by Landmark Communications.

After December 2009, these weekly movies were discontinued for the time being in favor of running Weather Center, which already aired in the entire primetime slot during the rest of the work week.

Prévert's poems were collected and published in his books: Paroles ( Words ) ( 1946 ), Spectacle ( 1951 ), La Pluie et le beau temps ( Rain and Good Weather ) ( 1955 ), Histoires ( Stories ) ( 1963 ), Fatras ( 1971 ) and Choses et autres ( Things and Others ) ( 1973 ).

So he took a camera crew to the U. S. Weather Bureau ( National Weather Service ) office with a WSR-57 radar console located on the 5th floor of the Post Office Building on 25th Street in downtown Galveston ( the antenna and its radome housing were located above the 7th floor, on the roof ).

Its top winds were estimated by the US National Weather Service at.

In 2010, a local National Weather Service employee and his wife were involved in an Islamic domestic terrorism plot that had proceeded to the operational phase.

In recent times, these crocodiles have been found only on the Weather Coast in the south of the island, but during the Second World War, they were found along the north coast in the vicinity of the airstrip where the fighting was taking place, as evidenced by names such as Alligator Creek.

Before striking Udall, there were no warnings issued by the Weather Bureau.

Mount Giles, the third highest mountain in the Northern Territory ; Lake Giles, 160 km ( 100 mi ) north of Southern Cross, Western Australia ; and the Giles Weather Station, near the Western Australian-South Australian border, were named after him.

They were Oscar-nominated twice, for their screenplays for The Band Wagon and It's Always Fair Weather.

Macon County was not equipped with tornado warning sirens ; despite the efforts of the local news media and the National Weather Service, many residents were unprepared.

The National Weather Service reported that at least wind gusts were achieved.

The first wind chill formulae and tables were developed by Paul Allman Siple and Charles Passel working in the Antarctic before the Second World War, and were made available by the National Weather Service by the 1970s.

The first regular meteorological observations on Mount Washington were conducted by the U. S. Signal Service, a precursor of the National Weather Service, from 1870 to 1892.