How’s the Weather? National Weather Service Northern Indiana Celebrates 20th Anniversary
“With 122 weather centers in the United States, there are a lot of opportunities to move if you want to,” Lewis says. “I’ve This year the U.S. National Weather Service moved all over the country. I can honestly (NWS) celebrates its 150th anniversary as call northern Indiana my home. In this a government agency. The NWS Northern area, with the influence of the lakes, we Indiana location in Syracuse recently have a lot of unbelievably challenging celebrated its 20th anniversary, having weather here. There’s a crazy diversity of opened to serve the public in August of weather here, more than anywhere else 1999. Michael Lewis, a warning coordination I’ve lived. The weather here is some of the meteorologist, has worked in Syracuse for the most challenging, difficult and interesting last 12 years, and he says that serving the area weather. Every day brings something new has been his favorite part of working for the and something you’ve never seen before.” National Weather Service. Writer / Mary Lowry Photography Provided
The staff at the Syracuse-based facility provides weather information for northern Indiana, southern Michigan and northwest Ohio, overseeing a total of 37 counties. Most of those counties are in Indiana, in addition to five in Michigan and eight in Ohio. With 122 weather stations across the United States, Syracuse is lucky to have a weather center according to Lewis. There are only two centers located in the state of Indiana, and a total of six centers provide weather information for the state.
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