Computers replace humans reading weather reports

Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been a bygone practice for most of the nation for almost two decades using real human voices in radio forecast broadcasts. In Nome and Kodiak, weather reports are crucial for many because of the severe weather that can affect fishing vessels in far—flung regions, including the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. A technological kink, however, prompted the Nome office to go back to local weather service employees reading the forecasts until the problem is rectified in the near future, officials said. Angel Corona, with the weather service’s data—acquisition branch in Anchorage, said work is underway to patch that office with the Anchorage forecast office for the broadcasts.