Whether you get your weather from an app on your phone or a meteorologist on TV, most of the information for your local weather forecast comes from the federal government. NPR’s Rebecca Hersher ...

The Weather Channel, for the most part, looked like a normal TV station—until the local forecast would show up. Then it became a pixelated data dump of weather information served over a funky piano ...

You're about to walk your dog, but the sky looks ominous. You pull out your phone, open your favorite weather app, and see that it's about to pour. You wait for the rain to pass. Or maybe you planned ...