Bethpage native named to head National Weather Service
Photo credit: AP/NOAA | The federal government selected Louis Uccellini, an expert in winter storms, to be the next director of the National Weather Service.
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As much of Long Island digs out from under nearly 3 feet of snow, the National Weather Service on Sunday named a Bethpage native as its new director.
Louis W. Uccellini became the weather service's 16th director Sunday and in a phone interview heralded its scientists for accurately predicting the path of the blizzard and providing potentially lifesaving information to the public in advance...
