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[Alan Henney]

MULTIMEDIA RELEASE: NOAA your weather
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5th District Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard
 Photo Release
Date: May 14, 2010 

Contact: Public Affairs Det. Baltimore

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NOAA your weather
Coast Guard, NOAA set buoy to gather weather data
     
      
      
      BALTIMORE - The Coast Guard along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration placed the eighth buoy in the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System in the Potomac River south of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge near National Harbor, Md., Friday.

      Weather buoys collect data and report real-time environmental information including wind speed, temperature and wave height. The buoys also serve as interpretive buoys that mark the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historical Trail that runs throughout the Chesapeake Bay.

      The Coast Guard Cutter Sledge, a 75-foot construction tender homeported in Baltimore, served as the platform to assist NOAA in setting the weather buoy into the Potomac River.

      Click on the photos above to view a higher resolution version and more specific caption information on the Coast Guard Visual Imagery site.

      For more information visit http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ or visit http://www.buoybay.org/site/public/explore/locate.php to view a map of the CBIBS buoys.
     



     
      BALTIMORE - The Coast Guard Cutter Sledge, a 75-foot construction tender homeported in Baltimore, assisted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in setting a weather buoy as part of the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System in the Potomac River near National Harbor, Md., May 14, 2010. Weather buoys collect data and report real-time environmental information including wind speed, temperature and wave height. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Brazzell.

      Click the above screenshot to view the video in windows media format.

      To view the video in quicktime format, click here.
     

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