National Weather Service (NWS)

The National Weather Service (NWS) is a US agency responsible for providing weather forecasts and warnings to protect life and property. Recent news highlights the NWS's crucial role in tracking and forecasting a series of extreme weather events across the country. These events include a record-breaking heatwave in Arizona, severe storms causing widespread power outages from the Midwest to the East Coast, tornadoes in the Midwest and Michigan, and a deadly winter storm impacting travel and causing fatalities from Texas to Maine. The NWS also issued warnings for an early spring heatwave in the Southwest and blizzard conditions in the Northeast. These events underscore the NWS's significance in informing the public and enabling preparedness efforts in the face of increasingly frequent and intense weather phenomena.