I was a youth volunteer at the NWS office in Spokane, WA circa ~1990+. I remember typing out the messages onto the terminals that were given to me by the team

I was a youth volunteer at the NWS office in Spokane, WA circa ~1990+. I remember typing out the messages onto the terminals that were given to me by the team there. It was always caps. But, in cool ways, the main terminals all had track balls, using a can opener to open up the cans before we put them onto balloons, and recording the actual NWS broadcasts myself are some of the great memories. I became a pilot and use their forecast data all the time. I was given a WWII original E6B style device by one of the guys there which I hold onto with it's leather case. Lots of respect for those people who day in and day out take measurements on the ground/air all around the country and world. The Internet provides it to us assuming it's just a given fact, but, it's taken huge number of individuals to produce weather data.