15th OWS Performers

Mr. Norman Watts, a 15th Operational Weather Squadron network/system administrator, checks the squadron’s server performance. The squadron uploads more than 120,000 files (10 Gbytes) daily. Photo by Mr. Marv Lynchard.

15th OWS Performers

Weather Forecaster, Senior Airman Bobbi Quast, 15th Operational Weather Squadron, forecasts the weather with her fellow forecasters on the operations floor. Photo by Mr. Marv Lynchard.

Weather and Comm Teamwork

Mr. Jeff Gould explains the Mission Execution Forecast verification program at Ft. Benning, Ga. Photos by Maj. David Runge.

Convoy Operations

Lt Ryan Rickert and MSgt James Myer shoot an azimuth during LANDNAV

379th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight forecaster

Senior Airman Daniel Perry, 379th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight forecaster, takes a wind speed reading with a Kestrel 4000. Airman Perry, stationed at Robins AFB, Ga., is one of six combat weather forecasters deployed to the flight.

Clouds flow across the Falls

An unusaul storm cloud formation at the Niagara Falls Air Base. Home of the 107th Air Refueling Wing. A KC-135R sits on the ramp. 04 October 2006

Santa visits the Philippines

Will Rioseco, a gunner’s mate with SEAL Team 5, Coronado, CA, and SGT Brian Bochat, an administrative NCO with the 1/19th Special Forces Group, Army National Guard, based in Camp Williams, Utah, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Fred Grant, a special operations weather NCO with the 181st Weather Flight, Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Fort Worth, Texas, distribute gifts to children of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. All three service members are deployed to Joint Special Operations Task Force – Philippines (JSOTF-P). (Photo by SGT Tim Meyer, JSOTF-P Public Affairs)

February 2005 storm at Thule AB, Greenland. Snow drifts blocked doors on several buildings.

The storm at Thule AB, Greenland in February, 2005 caused massive snow drifts resulting in several doors being blocked. People inside had to dig out of the snow.

Snowdrifts at Thule AB, Greenland

Late winter 2004. The last few years, Thule AB, Greenland has experienced an increase in the amount of snowfall. Coupled with the intense winds, large snow drifts form.

Delta IV

A Delta IV rocket launches at 5:53 a.m. on Nov. 4 from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-6. The rocket carried a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite in to space. The satellite will transition into a polar earth orbit to provide weather forcasts for servicemembers on battlefields around the world. (Photo by Thom Baur)

Sept. 7, 2005 Solar Flare

A record-level solar flare erupted Sept. 7, 2005, disrupting high-frequency communication for the flare's duration. Notifications included geographic locations and levels of radio frequencies that would potentially be affected.

The Augustine volcano near Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, erupts twice on Jan. 13, 2006.

The Augustine volcano near Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, erupts twice on Jan. 13, 2006. AFWA meteorologists provided PUFF model graphical depictions, satellite images and analysis of the eruptions for military operations in the region.