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Get the Washington, DC local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Calls for the creation of a government weather bureau began as early as 1844, when the electrical telegraph was introduced. In 1869, Cleveland Abbe, then director of the Cincinnati Observatory, began developing and issuing public weather forecasts (which he called "probabilities") using daily weather observations collected simultaneously and sent via telegraph by a network of observers.
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Fresh in the wake of a storm forecast to bring accumulating snow in part of the Northeast later this weekend, air with origins in Siberia will settle into Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 20 with ...
Winter Storm Cora is set to spread a wintry mess of snow and ice across the South. For the latest on this storm, check out our most current forecast here.
The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), located in College Park, Maryland, is one of nine service centers under the umbrella of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Government.
The NWS Baltimore/Washington currently employs about 25 people including meteorologists, support personnel, and management staff, working rotating shifts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As of November 10, 2020, the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington is responsible for Cecil County, Maryland , rather than the National Weather Service ...
Inauguration Day was moved from March 4 to Jan. 20 in the 1930s, in part, to hope for less rainy, snowy weather. (It's colder in January, of course, but the chance for rain or snow in the ...