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Home News A map of surface soil wetness in March 2021, with blue areas representing high moisture, and dark red areas representing exceptional drought. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin) The ongoing drought in the U.S. Southwest is the worst drought the region has experienced since record keeping…

by Jeff Foust — September 24, 2021 NOAA is acquiring commercial weather data, in the form of radio occultation profiles, from companies like Spire, but a House committee wants the agency to ensure other companies can compete for weather data contracts. Credit: Spire WASHINGTON — Members of the House Science…

In a stark new report, a team of NOAA and independent researchers found the 2020-2021 drought across the Southwest is the worst in the instrumental record, which dates to 1895. Why it matters: They also concluded that global warming is making it far more severe, primarily by increasing average temperatures,…

September 21, 2021 - 11:10AM Storyful The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released satellite footage on September 20 showing the heat signature from a volcano on La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, following an eruption the previous day. The NOAA said on Monday the GOESEast satellite captured the…

Alexa Rose seems to conjure a unique sense of atmosphere within her songwriting. New album 'Headwaters' is a bucolic taste of folk-hewn Americana, offering pastural scenes that touch upon the personal. Out on September 17th, writing took place over a long period of time, with Alexa sinking deep into her…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced the recipients of the 2021 Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Grant awards. The awards — to 25 recipients — total approximately US$7.3 million (~€6.2 million) in federal funds. Non-federal contributions matched that money, bringing the total amount of these marine debris…

When Hurricane Ida finally moved on from Louisiana and Mississippi, it had weakened to a tropical storm. Shortly after, it became a mass of warm, wet air moving steadily up the US. But its rapid renewal and deluge could be a sign of how upcoming warmer, wetter storms will be…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced the availability of a host of Marine Debris Grants for the fiscal year 2022, which begins on October 1st, 2021. The grant opportunities are prioritized towards projects that will create quantifiable improvements, including the removal of abandoned fishing gear, abandoned vessels,…

The United States had its hottest summer on record this year, narrowly edging out the previous milestone that was set 85 years ago during the Dust Bowl. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that the average temperature this summer for the contiguous U.S. was 74 degrees Fahrenheit, or…

The past three months of disaster-filled weather across the lower 48 states ranks in a statistical dead heat with the Dust Bowl year of 1936 as the hottest summer on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Thursday. Why it matters: A record 18.4% of the contiguous U.S.…