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  • Worldwide weather system installations completed

    The Electronic Systems Center here has wrapped up a five-year, $70 million effort to replace 110 fixed-based weather sensing systems at sites across the globe. The center and the prime contractor, Coastal Environmental Systems of Seattle, Wash., completed the final installation in Southwest Asia

  • Weather agency helps commanders with mission decisions

    Before flying to support ground forces or attack a target, Air Force and Army pilots run through a lengthy preflight checklist. Getting a go from Air Force weather forecasters is on the list twice. The meteorological data used by combat weather forecasters is collected by the Air Force Weather

  • AFNWC upgrades world-wide forecast products

    The American Forces Network Weather Center here received computer upgrades recently ensuring its world-wide products equal or surpasses that of their civilian counterparts. The center received two major forecast production units in early August totaling approximately $50,000 -- better known as

  • Offutt NCO shines during deployed IG inspection

    In just a year, Joint Task Force-Bravo's C4IS went from a mediocre rating by the Southern Command's Inspector General Team to that of a first-rate program with zero discrepancies. In fact, so good was the program managed that the inspector proclaimed equipment accountability as "the best program I

  • Kadena recovers from Typhoon Man-Yi

    After more than 24 hours in the highest typhoon condition and with winds gusting up to 105 mph, Kadena Air Base is recovering from Typhoon Man-Yi. The base entered the highest typhoon condition July 12 with the expectation the typhoon would hit the island sometime July 13. The typhoon hit the base

  • Kadena prepares for typhoon

    Kadena Air Base members are bracing for Typhoon Man-Yi as its current path will pass over Okinawa, base weather officials said. With the advance notification, base units have started typhoon preparation for Okinawa's first typhoon this year. Right now it should hit the island sometime the morning of

  • Weather flight keeps pilots safe

    When planning a mission, Airmen must consider equipment, manpower and cost; however, there is one element that could have a serious impact if not properly planned for -- the weather. Because of Lajes Field's location as the mid-point between the United States and Europe, military flights regularly

  • “Go” or “No-Go” the answer is up in the air, literally

    Deployed service members supporting Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom rely on detailed, mission-specific weather forecasts to help determine whether to start a mission or operation - and a team effort is just the ticket to fill that need. The forecasts often become the final element used

  • Programmers improve weather forecasting for troops fighting war on terror

    The products - detailed weather forecasts supporting our war fighters - are important, but the coding providing it via high-tech imagery to the world was cumbersome at best until recently. The program driving the imagery was so large, that in less than seven months Senior Airman Ben Smeland took the

  • Airmen's weather watch data enhances military missions

    Sandstorms, which often appear as solid walls of dust as much as 15,000 feet high, can obscure the sun and reduce visibility to zero. A group of weather watching Airmen monitor Southwest Asia's approximately 55-million square-mile area of responsibility, forecasting these storms before they hit;