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Data: NOAA data via NCIS; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Temperatures will sizzle toward record territory for many in the Mid-Atlantic on Thursday. Baltimore and Washington, D.C., could reach 80°F. The big picture: The freakishly mild winter in the East has led to a sense of unease. This is February, when Nor'easters normally…

The first light image in brightness temperature was captured by the Cross-track Infrared Sounder instrument on NOAA-21, one of three satellites in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System. The image shows large-scale waves of upper tropospheric water vapor and clouds over the Earth’s globe. Image generated…

Credit: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JPSS Sensor Data Record Science Team The Visible and Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the recently launched NOAA-21 satellite started collecting Earth science data from its day-night band (DNB) and its thermal emissive bands (TEB) on Feb. 9, 2023. This comes three months after the satellite launched from…

Necropsies on two whales found dead along the Atlantic coast this week revealed that both marine mammals showed evidence of vessel strikes.  Both whales, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale and a humpback, were already beginning to decompose, but preliminary results show internal injuries consistent with the blunt force…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is updating its global climate dataset with new data on Feb. 14. Photo by Gil C/Shutterstock.com Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information will update its global climate dataset when the January 2023 global climate report…

The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Fisheries has announced a proposed rule to expand the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), a risk-based Program for targeted species of seafood imported into the U.S.  Expanding SIMP would increase the number of species included in the Program from approximately 1,100 individual species…

WEBWIRE – Friday, February 3, 2023 Leaders from NOAA, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) offsite link and the University of Maryland (UMD) Center for Technology and Systems Management offsite link held a summit today to discuss how the nation’s engineering profession can account for climate change in the…

Data: NOAA; Note: 10, 25, and 75 year periods are calculated from 2013, 1998, and 1948 to 2022; Map: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsOver the past 75 years, Punxsutawney Phil has correctly predicted whether there will be an early spring 69% of the time, according to an Axios analysis of NOAA data. Why…

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…