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  2. AccuWeather - Wikipedia

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    AccuWeather, Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running his company ...

  3. Weather radar - Wikipedia

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    Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).

  4. South African Weather Service - Wikipedia

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    The Union of South Africa's Weather Service was established in 1912 under the Department of Irrigation, with Charles M Stewart as its first Chief Meteorologist. [1] At some point between 1912 and 1940, the SAWS' name was changed to the Meteorological Service , and in 1940, during the Second World War , became the responsibility of the ...

  5. List of fictional African countries - Wikipedia

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    Buranda: African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister, formerly known as "British Equatorial Africa" Burunda: Fictional country located in Southern Africa. From the Marvel comics, it is not to be confused with Burundi. Butua: African country of cannibals in the novel Aline and Valcour by the Marquis de Sade.

  6. NEXRAD - Wikipedia

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    NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...

  7. Risk of falling space junk impacting planes is growing ...

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    Fox Weather. Watch: Lava meets snow as skiers take on Mount Etna's fiery slopes. Weather. AccuWeather. Snowstorm to snarl travel from Nebraska to Kentucky, Tennessee into Wednesday.

  8. Climate of Africa - Wikipedia

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    With a population of approximately 1.2 billion, Africa only has 37 weather radar stations, in stark contrast to the 636 stations in the United States and European Union. This scarcity of weather stations and early warning systems leads to inadequate disaster preparedness and response, compounded by maintenance issues with many existing radar ...

  9. Ecuador votes for a new president after years of violence and ...

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    Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an unprecedented security crisis in the country.