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What cloud-loving federal agency celebrates its 142nd anniversary today?

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Answer:

The National Weather Service. Originally known as the U.S. Weather Bureau, its mission was "to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories...and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms." The agency was signed into existence by President Grant today in 1870.