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Opinion · betterbom editorial

The $96 million rebrand that made the forecast harder to find

The Bureau spent $96 million rebuilding the country's most-used public website. The science underneath is still world-class. The front door is not. Here's why we built betterbom — and what we think a national weather service owes the people who pay for it.

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