COUNTYWIDE : Weather Service to Move Headquarters
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The National Weather Service has announced that it will move its regional headquarters from Los Angeles to Oxnard and build a radar station atop Sulfur Mountain north of Santa Paula.
In a presentation to the County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, area Manager Jerry O. McDuffie said the weather service plans to move 28 workers to Oxnard in January, 1994, after it builds a new office near Rice Road in eastern Oxnard.
The move from Los Angeles makes sense because of the new site’s proximity to the planned radar station on Sulfur Mountain, McDuffie said. The weather service will operate in Oxnard from a 6,000-square-foot monitoring station.
The weather service now uses outdated aircraft radar for much of its monitoring, and the Sulfur Mountain radar will be part of a vast nationwide modernization of its facilities, McDuffie said.
Weather forecasts for Ventura County will be much more accurate as a result of the local radar and improved equipment, he said.
The radar station will be painted a dark green and blend in with surrounding trees so it will not be an eyesore, officials said.
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