Mobile/Pensacola Weather Forecast Office

The Weather Forecast Office (WFO) located at Mobile's Regional Airport is a field office of the National Weather Service (NWS), which is an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which in turn is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Our Agency used to be known as the "U.S. Weather Bureau" until the early 1970s when we changed the name to the NWS.  Before it was the "Weather Bureau", the agency was part of the old Signal Corps.  The office in Mobile was originally located downtown in 1870 as part of the Signal Service.  In 1934 it was moved to the old Bates Field (now Brookley Field).  The office stayed there until 1941 when it moved to the old terminal building at the current day locations of Bates Field (or Mobile Regional Airport).  In 1994 (under the modernization of the National Weather Service) the office moved into its present day location just off Airport Boulevard on the southeast side of Mobile Regional Airport (under the "big white ball"). 

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