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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is one step closer to establishing a proposed National Marine Sanctuary along New York State’s eastern Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands Region of the St. Lawrence River. On January 19th, NOAA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that includes draft provisions for…

NOAA satellite image showing Hurricane Ian nearing the coast of Florida on Sept. 28, 2022. A key House Republican is putting forward a plan to make the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) an independent agency outside the Department of Commerce. Why it matters: Removing the agency from a Cabinet-level…

January 05, 2023 - 4:40PM Storyful A satellite captured imagery of a “powerful storm system” approaching the west coast of the United States on Wednesday, January 4, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) said. This imagery showing the system was released by CIRA, which operates in partnership…

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That overall temperature rise made weather more outrageous than ever in some parts of the world in 2022. The above map from NOAA, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is a nice visualization of where temperatures were particularly hot and where records were set. Asia had its second-warmest year…

It's possible that in a given year this decade average global temperatures could leap by more than the 1.5-degree threshold, but the more worrisome trend comes when that level of warming persists over decades. A major report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that global warming…

by Debra Werner — January 12, 2023 Ball Aerospace is building the Weather System Follow-on – Microwave satellite for the U.S. Space Force. The satellite includes a passive microwave imaging radiometer from Ball and an energetic charged particle sensor supplied by the government. Credit: Ball Aerospace DENVER – The U.S.…

by Debra Werner — January 11, 2023 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration produces monthly climate data records based on information drawn from microwave sensors that are particularly vulnerable to RF interference. Credit: NOAA DENVER – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is taking stock of its dependence on specific…

Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2022 during a media briefing at 11 a.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 12...Read More

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week confirmed the death of a male North Atlantic Right Whale calf near Morehead City, North Carolina. “Response teams recovered the carcass and conducted a necropsy,” according to NOAA. The calf was seen alive on January 3rd, 2023, when a member of…