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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), pronounced , like "Noah," is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere.
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Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West.The forecast for June through August calls for warmer-than-normal weather for about three-quarters of the nation, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.The warmth is expected south of a line stretching from middle New Jersey to southern Idaho. Only tiny portions of northwestern U.S. and Alaska are predicted to be cooler than average and that's only for June, not the rest of the summer.Last May until April was the hottest 12-month period on record for the nation with records going back to 1895. This year so far has seen the hottest March, the third warmest April and the fourth warmest January and February in U.S. weather history. And it was one of the least snowy years on record in the Lower 48.Some people called it the year without winter.And the outlook for summer is "more of the same," said Jon Gottschalck, h...The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues its 2010 hurricane season forecast, predicting one of the strongest seasons on record -- and reiter...
NOAA Meteorologist Greg Carbin on damage in Texas
An oil company exploration crew's chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new informati...
Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal offi...
A huge sunspot that dwarfs the Earth is unleashing a series of powerful solar flares as it moves across the surface of the sun, NASA scientists say.Sunspot AR 1476 w...
As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, you might ask: Isn't there some way to ship all that water from here to ...
As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, you might ask: Isn't there some way to ship all that water from here to ...
Exceptionally high ocean temperatures and atmospheric conditions that support hurricane development will keep the Atlantic and Caribbean on track for an above-averag...
NOAA Storm Prediction Center weighs in on historic month of deadly weather
April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the N...
The nation's top meteorologists issued their 2011 hurricane-season forecast Thursday, predicting a serious and above-average season -- though not one as tumultuous a...
Calling it "a matter of public safety" and "national significance," the nation's top official in charge of forecasting hurricanes and tornadoes in the United States ...
NOAA predicts 9 to 15 tropical storms, 4 to 8 hurricanes
NOAA predicts 9 to 15 tropical storms, 4 to 8 hurricanes
A top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the A...
Party boats. Magicians. Federal agency rivals the GSA for disregard for taxpayer money
National Weather Service director Jack Hayes has stepped down amid an investigation into claims his organization misappropriated almost $44 million of taxpayers' mon...
Do you have a NOAA Weather Radio and need helping programming it? First step to keeping you safe, designed to wake you up. To properly program your radio which is me...
An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more debris from last year's Japanese tsunami...
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