A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and ...

NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad is leaving the federal atmosphere and oceans agency at an uncertain, increasingly stormy time ...

Using weather balloons for detailed checks and satellites for a more global and continuous picture, scientists at NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, are part of a broad ...

The U.S. experienced a historic year of severe weather in 2024, with NOAA reporting 1,762 tornadoes from January to November—the highest in a decade. These storms were part of 24 billion-dollar ...

Now, the resilient state is set to benefit from up to $1 million to support research geared toward its local communities, as reported by NOAA. During the first year alone, the remote state will ...

The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded ...

Research included in NOAA's Arctic report shows carbon once stored in the tundra's permafrost is actually being released into the atmosphere. In parts of the region, it's happening at a rate that ...

NOAA also found that last month, Arctic sea ice extent was the third-lowest ever recorded for November, while coverage was the overall lowest ever recorded for both the Antarctic and the globe in ...

NOAA has released its monthly outlook for January and with temperatures cold the last few days it looks like it will stay that way for a while. The temperature outlook over the next 8-14 days in ...

Though the full-year data was not yet fully complete, NOAA said 2024 has a greater than 99 percent chance of beating last year’s mark, which had been the highest since record keeping began in 1850.

A Nov. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a graph of U.S. Climate Reference Network temperature data from 2005 to 2024. The data in the graph is fairly scattered and it does not ...

Karen Hyun, who served in both the Obama and Biden administrations and was a vice president at the National Audubon Society, will begin her new job Jan. 27. NOAA chief of staff Karen Hyun has been ...