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The National Weather Service (NWS) was founded in 1870. Originally, the NWS was not a public information agency. It was a national security agency and placed under the Department of War. The Service’s national security function has long since disappeared, but as agencies often do, however, it stuck around and managed to increase its budget.
We don't need it, and it provides no public benefit. Today, we have The Weather Channel, along with a myriad of apps that run on our computers and our phones. These private operations fulfill every function of the NWS, and they do so without siphoning off taxpayer dollars.
