This is the latest milestone of the ongoing NOAA Big Data Project, which seeks to remove obstacles to public use of the agency’s data by combining three powerful resources. Keep Reading
“You have winter weather advisories from Illinois to Maine -- 50 million people in those advisories,” said Gaynor. “The odds are something will happen." Keep Reading
A drought that parched the southwestern U.S. Extraordinary flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states. Heat waves that baked the Iberian peninsula and northeast Asia. Vanishing sea ice in the Bering Sea. Keep Reading
While the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern often influences the winter, neutral conditions are in place this year and expected to persist. Keep Reading
The globe continued to simmer in exceptional warmth, as September 2019 tied with 2015 as the hottest September in NOAA’s 140-year temperature record. Keep Reading
The Congessional Budget Office estimates that expected annual economic losses total $54 billion for most types of damage caused by storm surges, hurricane winds, and heavy precipitation. Keep Reading
A stretch of severe weather has tormented communities from the Rocky Mountains to the Mid-Atlantic in recent weeks, causing at least seven deaths and scores of injuries. Keep Reading
The National Weather Service says that "at least an EF3 tornado with winds up to 140 mph" struck the city of Beavercreek in Greene County, Ohio. Keep Reading
For 2019, NOAA predicts a likely range of 9 to 15 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 4 to 8 could become hurricanes. Keep Reading
Five to 8 tropical cyclones are predicted for the central Pacific hurricane basin; NOAA does not predict whether any of these systems will affect Hawaii. Keep Reading
