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The National Weather Service Los Angeles is a local office of the
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an Government agency, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weathe ...
responsible for monitoring weather conditions in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo
; ; ; Chumashan languages, Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway betwee ...
counties, as well as adjacent coastal waters
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out 60 nautical mile
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s. The NWS Los Angeles office serves the third-most populous district in the nation, after NWS New York City and NWS Philadelphia.
History
The Signal Service established an office at Los Angeles in 1877, at the corner ofMain
Main may refer to:
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*Ma'in, an ancient kingdom in modern-day Yemen
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and Commercial Streets, with the Weather Bureau assuming responsibility in 1890. During the 1940s, the city office moved to the Los Angeles Civic Center
The Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and court ...
district. The Civic Center office closed in 1964, and the main forecast office was relocated at the Wilshire Federal Building
The Wilshire Federal Building is an office building in Los Angeles, located on Wilshire and Sepulveda Boulevards in the area of Sawtelle.Joan Wai, ''Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In Los Angeles: Including Santa Monica, Pasadena, ...
where it remained until the current Oxnard location opened in 1993.
An airport station was established at Mines Field
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(now LAX
A lax is a salmon.
LAX as an acronym most commonly refers to Los Angeles International Airport in Southern California, United States.
LAX or Lax may also refer to:
Places
Within Los Angeles
* Union Station (Los Angeles), Los Angeles' main tr ...
) in 1931, with a District Forecast Office established there on April 7, 1947, having relocated from Burbank
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* Burbank, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane
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* Burbank, California, a city in Los Angeles County
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. This satellite office was open until in 1997 when it was redesignated a NWS Contract Meteorological Observatory. In 2002 this observatory was transferred to the Federal Aviation Administration
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.
A regional headquarters of the National Weather Service was located in Los Angeles from 1943 to 1949.
NOAA Weather Radio
The National Weather Service Los Angeles forecast office provides programming for eightNOAA Weather Radio
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stations.
See also
*List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices
The National Weather Service (NWS) operates 122 weather forecast offices. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:National Weather Service Los AngelesLos Angeles
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Environment of Greater Los Angeles
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