Dangerously hot conditions are occurring today in southeast Oklahoma, the ArkLaTex, lower Mississippi Valley, and Puerto Rico. Hot temperatures surround this area throughout the southern U.S. Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories in effect. Excessive rainfall may lead to flash flooding today over parts of northern Alabama into eastern Tennessee and the Cascades. Read More >
Grand Junction, CO
Weather Forecast Office
The objectives of the National Weather Service Hydrology Program are to:
As a result, the country was divided into 8 hydrologic districts during the 1940s. In 1946, the first River Forecast Centers were created for these districts, which would eventually expand to 13.
The authority of the NWS to make river forecasts is documented in the Department of Commerce Organization Order 10-15. The statutes for the criminal code (15 U.S.C. 313, June 25, 1948) specified that the (then) Weather Bureau "/gjt.shall have charge of forecasting the weather, the issue of storm warnings, and the display of weather and flood [warnings]/gjt."
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Grand Junction, CO 81506-8644
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