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  • A tornado that saved a city and defeated the enemy

    The summer of 1814 was one of the hottest on record. In late August, the afternoon rains and temperatures of over 100 F made the air humid with beads of moisture and turned the stagnate marshlands surrounding Washington D.C. into disease-carrying mosquito hatcheries. The 8,000 heat-weary townspeople

  • 15th Operational Weather Squadron - Bringing Weather into Focus

    The 15th Operational Weather Squadron has the daunting responsibility of providing timely and accurate environmental situational awareness to more than 120 military installations and sites across a 22-state region of the northeastern United States. Additionally, the Squadron is one of six training

  • Hurricane Hunters track Pacific winter storms

    While most people flee when a pending storm is coming, Keesler AFB Airmen go right into the heart of storms to provide detailed information about storms to warn people of hazardous weather. Airmen and WC-130J Hercules aircraft, also known as Hurricane Hunters, left here Feb. 12 for Anchorage,

  • Children follow in parents' footsteps on National Job Shadow Day

    After rushing through weekday morning routines, children and parents head off different in directions to begin their days, each wondering what the others' day will entail. Mackenzie Odom, a Spangdahlem Elementary School fourth grader, had the opportunity to see first hand what her father, Tech. Sgt.

  • Dover AFB Weather Flight gives Airmen heads up

    Stand-up comedian George Carlin once joked, "Weather forecast for tonight: Dark, continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." Although his comical forecast is quite accurate, it is a bit too vague for the needs of aircrews that depend upon timely and precise climate

  • Special Forces Soldiers Conduct Holiday Op for Filipino Kids

    A few days after Air Force Staff Sgt. Fred Grant settled into his job as the Special Operations Weather Noncommissioned Officer here, he made a cardboard donations box and an announcement. The soft-spoken Mississippi native had a simple wish: to provide Christmas gifts for Filipino children who live

  • Weather recon still kickin'

    For more than 60 years, brave Air Force weather men and women have flown on routine, and not-so-routine weather reconnaissance missions to protect the people of our nation from the ravages of tropical cyclones - wherever these storms form. That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the

  • Weather squadron volunteers continue Hurricane Katrina clean-up

    After visiting the Bay St. Louis, Miss., area, the commander of the 46th Weather Squadron helped organize a team of volunteers to assist with the on-going Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort. Lt. Col. Julie Noto and Senior Master Sgt. Peter Buzynski of the 46th WS organized eight volunteers, rented

  • Monsoons in America?

    On the evening of July 17, a massive thunderstorm ripped through the Marana-Silverbell Army Helicopter Support Facility complex which lies approximately 15 miles north of Tucson, Ariz. wreaking havoc on operations base-wide. Regional forecasters at the 25th Operational Weather Squadron,

  • Two of Thule's Extreme Storms

    DEC. 27, 1957 The Ballistic Missile Early Warning Site dispatcher to the system controller reported the winds on site were 26 mph and at Shelter 7 they were 23 to 25 mph. At 6:50 p.m. a shuttle bus was dispatched to BMEWS. Shortly after, a Phase Alert was declared. The winds jumped to 68 to 70 mph