page_title: 557th Weather Wing
section_title: Weather reconnaissance
hierarchical_section_title: 557th Weather Wing / History / Weather reconnaissance
caption_attribution_description: English: Boeing WB-47E-60-BW Stratojet tail number 51-2417 of the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flying an operational mission from McClellan AFB, California. Note the single U-1 sampling foil mounted on the right hand bomb bay door.
context_page_description: The 557th Weather Wing is a United States Air Force formation and its lead military meteorology center. It delivers environmental situational awareness worldwide to the Air Force, the Army, joint warfighters, Unified Combatant Commands, the national intelligence community, and the Secretary of Defense. It is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, in Bellevue, Nebraska.
  The wing and subordinate weather squadrons collect, analyze, and generate a comprehensive weather database of forecast, climatological, and space weather products.
context_section_description: During the war, the AAF had developed weather reconnaissance units for scouting and route weather observation and reporting, but these units had remained under the command of theater commanders or Air Transport Command.  Once Air Weather Service became part of ATC, the time was ripe to place weather reconnaissance unit under its command.  In July 1946, it established the Air Weather Group (Provisional) at Morrison Field, Florida,  In October, this group was taken out of provisional status and became the 308th Reconnaissance Group, Weather.
caption: Air Weather Service Boeing WB-47[12]
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