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Nestled in the northeast corner of Offutt Air Force Base, you’ll find the Air Force Weather Agency. Their mission is simple.Video: Air Force Weather Agency provides extensive coverage“Everything that we focus on is toward the warfighter operations, and protecting and supporting our airmen and soldiers,” said Capt. Hayley Homan, a meteorologist of the U.S. Air Force.Weather is paramount in operation planning. There are forecasts that have shaped the course of history, like on June 5-6, 1944, when officials were leading up to the D-Day invasion -- considered by many to be the most important forecast in history.Meteorology methodology and technology has evolved over the years.“We have tons of data that comes in here. We actually transmit up to 11 terrabytes every day,” said Homan.A large room dedicated to all of its servers, digest and disseminate observations and data, which go into AFWA’s weather models. Airmen can access those models wherever they are in the world for their forecasts.There are nearly 1,500 professionals on staff.“Our airmen that work at AFWA are some of the best-trained airmen in the world,” said Col. William Carle.Forecasts in the Air Force are mission-based and done at the local level, so they’re usually different than what KETV works on in the Weather Now Forecast Center. KETV’s forecasts highlight temperatures with chances and amounts of precipitation. The Air Force has to consider wind speeds and directions at different levels in the atmosphere, icing conditions, fog and cloud cover.Another integral and equally important element of AFWA runs in the Space Weather Operations Center.“We do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for everyone in the Department of Defense,” said Sgt. Charles Malone, of the Space Weather Operations Center.The center’s job is to monitor solar activity. Solar flares are sometimes associated with coronal mass ejections, which are giant bursts of solar wind. If the plasma from the sun hurls toward Earth, it can mean major issues.“That can impact our communications, our satellites and the power grid,” said Malone.The center relies on observatories spread across the world to maintain a constant view of Earth’s closest star. With plenty of eyes on Earth’s atmospheric conditions and those 93 million miles away, AFWA has weather covered.