When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get ...

Whether you get your weather from an app on your phone or a meteorologist on TV, most of the information for your local weather forecast comes from the federal government.

At the local level, said Amber Sullins, chief meteorologist at ABC15 in Phoenix, reporters often use more granular data to help their audiences understand how the days and weeks ahead are looking; ...

If you plan on going out this weekend, you may want to check in with your local weather station. As of right now, Saturday night's forecast isn't looking too great for several states. Over the ...

If you are living in one of many areas of the U.S. currently experiencing a heat wave, your outdoor thermometer may say it's in the 90s, but your local weather station tells you it feels like ...

(NEXSTAR) – If you’re making plans for next weekend and the weather forecast on your phone looks terrible, don’t panic. The high temperature forecasted by your phone may be pretty different ...

NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by weather forecasters nationwide – and freely available to anyone.