keywords: weather, severe weather, hurricanes, storms, national weather service, barometer, teletype, weather satellites
Synopsis: From its roots of bi-plane overflights to hi-tech computers and satellites the National Weather Service has strived to accurately forcast weather patterns... (read more)
Stills of Weather Bureau kite launch, forecasting office, old fashioned guage and recording instrument, barometer, logs and Teletype machine. Meteorologist shown forecasting weather in the 1970's and 1980's using instruments of that era.
As well as scenes of satellite dishes, orange grove heaters or smug pots, newspaper headlines, CGI visualization of typhoon Whinnie, over-flight of hurricane Mitch and hurricane Linda.
