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#FedFeed – Spring, snapshots and shamrocks

In this week's Fedfeed, NOAA shares its spring 2016 outlook, NARA promotes its new app, and the Smithsonian shares the history of Shamrocks.

Daisy Thornton@dthorntonWFED

March 17, 2017 3:41 pm

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NOAA released its Spring outlook this week. Despite this week’s winter storm, it’s forecasting a warm spring.

The Coast Guard’s “Shutter Shootout” photography contest started on Wednesday.

Federal News Radio collected some of the photo entries into a gallery. Check them out here:

Coast Guard holds annual photo contest

The National Archives launched an app that shares its archives of pictures and films from WWI:

We’re pretty excited about our new #WWI app! Explore newly digitized pictures and film from our holdings. #archivesWWI https://t.co/7YAgIHIgjQ

— US National Archives (@USNatArchives) March 16, 2017

And for St. Patrick’s Day, the Smithsonian has the background on shamrocks.

Happy #StPatricksDay! The word “shamrock” first appeared in plays and poetry in the 1500s. @SmithsonianMag has more: https://t.co/v77DXBDiWB

— Smithsonian (@smithsonian) March 17, 2017

Daisy Thornton

Daisy Thornton is Federal News Network’s digital managing editor. In addition to her editing responsibilities, she covers federal management, workforce and technology issues. She is also the commentary editor; email her your letters to the editor and pitches for contributed bylines.

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