Computers replace humans reading weather reports
June 13, 2014 /Uncategorized

Computers replace humans reading weather reports

In this June 9, 2014 photo, National Weather Service meteorological technician Robert Murders reads the weather at the weather service office in Nome, Alaska. The Nome and Kodiak offices are among the last two in the nation to still use human voices for weather forecasts, but that will soon change. Both officers are switching to computerized voices that nationally go by the names of Tom, Donna and, in some parts of the country, Spanish-speaking Javier. It's an idea first hatched in the mid-1990s as part of a move to modernize the weather service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/KNOM, Rolland Trowbridge)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been …read more

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