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Summers are getting hotter, but the heat is not being suffered equally. The urban heat island effect — a phenomenon in which traditional urban design features attract the sun’s rays, making some cities several degrees hotter than surrounding areas — disproportionately exposes urban residents to dangerous conditions and additional utility…

Home News A satellite image of Isaias on Aug. 4 shows the storm moving north over the East Coast of the U.S. It made landfall in North Carolina on Aug. 3 as a Category 1 hurricane, but within hours had weakened to a tropical storm.  (Image: © NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East Sandwich)…

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters warned Thursday of the potential for an "extremely active" hurricane season in the Atlantic. The big picture: The agency expects 19 to 25 named storms — with three to six major hurricanes — during the six-month hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30. The average season produces…

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Federal agency finds a way to increase its efficiency tackling a growing number of projects by leveraging a solution from Smartsheet.Overseeing a vast natural resource such as the nation’s fisheries might sound like a task reserved for only intense compute resources -- yet a division of National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Genoa President Enrico Preziosi couldn’t confirm coach Davide Nicola’s future at Marassi, as he reiterated his wish to sell the Rossoblu. Last night’s 3-0 win against Hellas Verona confirmed Genoa’s place in Serie A 2020-21 and Preziosi hopes to ‘take a step back’ after another busy season. “We saved ourselves…

On July 30, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite revealed strong thunderstorms circled the center of Isaias’ circulation. The center was near the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic and bands of thunderstorms from the eastern quadrant stretching over Puerto Rico. A thick band of thunderstorms from the center of circulation also…

IMAGE: NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image Tropical Storm Isaias after it formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on July 29. view more  Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided visible imagery of the development and movement of Tropical…

On July 26 at 3:35 p.m. EDT (1935 UTC) NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Hanna in infrared light using the AIRS instrument. The strongest storms with the coldest cloud top temperatures were located over extreme south Texas and northeastern Mexico. Coldest cloud top temperatures were as cold as or colder than (purple)…

Rainfall in north-central India can drop significantly this year because of the projected reduction in the monsoon low-pressure system, according to a study of an American scientific agency. The study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released on Friday, projected a significant decrease in Monsoon Low-Pressure System (MLPS)…