Category: Weather

Debby’s not done yet … source

The launch of a new polar-orbiting environmental satellite enables NOAA to continue issuing accurate forecasts and provide advance warning for severe weather, such as deadly tornado outbreaks, blistering heat waves, … Read More

Images taken near Erie, Pennsylvania, show the arrival, brilliance and eventual subsiding of a “geomagnetic substorm,” also known as the northern lights. source

NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown recently completed the 2011 Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) Northeast Extension project. The project, which included 14 scientists from four countries, … Read More

Conditions at 10,000 feet are rarely conducive for the formation of a tornado. But tornadoes do sometimes form in the mountains. This one formed near Cripple Creek, Colorado, and caused … Read More

While you may think quakes are a western US problem, some of the largest temblors in US history have happened in the East. LOS ANGELES – A minor earthquake rattled … Read More

From extreme drought, heat waves and floods to unprecedented tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms, a record 12 weather and climate disasters in 2011 each caused $1 billion or … Read More

August 12, 2024 11am ET — Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Weather Channel’s Kelly Cass has the latest on the … Read More

Three members of a North Carolina family, including a 7-year-old boy, during the disastrous flooding from Helene. Now, the survivors share their story of immense grief and comforting faith. ASHEVILLE, … Read More

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., delivers keynote remarks during the 2012 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting on January 24 in New Orleans, La. Though science has taken us a … Read More