The National Weather Service (NWS) is now offering advisory forecasts of turbulence, icing, thunderstorms, and other aviation weather hazards via the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS).
ADDS employs user-friendly graphics of specific routes to display forecasts based on state-of-the-art forecast models and algorithms.
"The National Weather Service plays a major role in aviation safety," NWS director John Kelly, Jr. said. "Our forecasters regularly analyze hazardous weather and provide warnings of thunderstorms, icing, wind shear, and other flight hazards that pilots and air traffic controllers need most.
"ADDS is a part of our commitment to use technology to make this weather information easy to use and readily available to all interested individuals at the click of a mouse."
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