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NOAA / NWS advisories tend to have a lot of proper names. It looks really wacky if you just lower-case them (and it's non-trivial to convert them to proper capitalization automatically.)

(I tried to do this back in about 1999. I don't think it's gotten much easier, although having geo APIs might help somewhat.)

Also, apparently there's some international standards around this kind of info that require it to be upper case: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/blame-united-n...

* { text-transform: lowercase; }

If it bothers you so much. :)

Quick hack, maybe. But someone getting the time to do so is another issue. And these are old systems, you want them to do the work so you can read a tsunami warning that happens how often?

It's more readable in all caps, which is why they and the military do it this way. If it were all lowercase thing like Is and ls and 1s would get confused.

They deliver the information on a number of formatted pages. This is simply the source document.