The National Weather Service was established on February 9, 1870, when President Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a national weather service. On November 1, 1870, the first meteorological forecast was made by "observing-sergeants" of the Army Signal Service at 22 stations and telegraphed to Washington.
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