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NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.
NOAA’s has awarded a $24 million contract to the weather data firm PlanetiQ for satellite data services, the largest contract ...
A forecaster monitors incoming data for Hurricane Irma in 2017 at the National Hurricane Center, part of the NOAA. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images All of that information goes into ...
A new machine learning tool can reduce errors in national flood prediction programming, resulting in more accurate ...
WASHINGTON — On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it is delaying the plan to cut off satellite data provided by the Defense Department by one month. The data helps ...
The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...