In early July, the Caribbean experienced 165 mph winds as Category 5 Hurricane Beryl swept through the region. Beryl was unprecedented, becoming the Atlantic’s earliest forming Category 5 tropical cyclone on record. The storm developed and rapidly intensified to maximum wind speed in less than four days – a behavior uncommon this early in the season.
Hurricane Beryl: An opportunity for collaborative research Read More >
NOAA and Verizon Frontline signed a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to explore new strategies to rapidly deploy uncrewed aircraft systems that will
NOAA, Verizon team up to advance disaster response research Read More >
Recent wildfire disasters have devastated Hawaii, California, North Carolina, and parts of the western U.S., while major cities during the summer of 2023 saw dangerous air quality levels due to smoke from Canadian fires. Critical research is being funded by an additional $100 million over five years through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) in FY22 to improve the prediction, detection, and recovery from wildfires.
Helping communities prepare for wildfires Read More >
This week for Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some of the women who are making critical contributions to NOAA’s work in severe weather research. Meet five women who are working on progress and solutions to better prepare society for severe weather events.
Meet the women advancing NOAA’s severe weather research Read More >
It’s been 50 years since the first attempt to forecast the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. So, what is ENSO and why is it so important to anticipate the timing of the cycle?
50 years of getting ENSO predictions *mostly* correct Read More >
Imagine you’re asked to figure out how one of the most complex systems on planet Earth works. Where would you start?
FAR AFIELD: Researchers seek out and study tornadoes and severe weather Read More >
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center — a division of the National Weather Service — has a new model to help produce hurricane forecasts this season. The Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System
NOAA launches new hurricane forecast model as Atlantic season starts strong Read More >
Operational models are the backbone of weather and climate prediction, allowing experts to make informed predictions about the weather a few days from now — or the climate several decades into the future.
Driving improvements in weather and climate forecasting with GFDL’s experimental models Read More >
This winter has brought multiple rounds of devastating severe weather to the southeastern U.S., with more than 200 reported tornadoes and 14 fatalities. To better understand the deadly storms in this region, scientists will conduct research as they travel through seven states in the second year of one of the largest and most comprehensive severe storm field projects to date.
Severe storm research campaign kicks off second year of data gathering Read More >
Researchers with NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, and partners set sail from Bridgetown, Barbados aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown on November 1st, 2022. Over the next 40 days, the crew and scientists recovered and redeployed key moorings in the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA), deployed an additional mooring, and serviced two equatorial PIRATA buoys in support of the PIRATA Northeast Extension project and broader PIRATA objectives. They also conducted a number of research projects on the ocean and atmosphere that advance our understanding of carbon absorption in the ocean and atmospheric pollution.
NOAA cruise supports vital climate and weather data flow Read More >
