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Tropical Depression One-E in the eastern Pacific Ocean on April 25, 2020. NOAA The eastern Pacific Ocean made history on Saturday with the formation of Tropical Depression One-E, the earliest tropical system ever recorded in the ocean basin. The premature depression developed about 900 miles off the southwestern coast of…

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 22 April 2020 Status Report From: Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA) Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast SDF Number 113 Issued at 2200Z on 22 Apr 2020 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity…

04/22/2020Frank Donovan, W3LPL, notes that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has published its official updated prediction of Solar Cycle 25 in new, interactive Solar Cycle Progression graphs. The updated prediction is based on the results of NOAA’s Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel. “SWPC…

The estimated 150-foot long siphonophore is thought to be the largest animal ever recorded Schmidt Ocean Institute An approximately 150-foot long siphonophore — possibly the longest ocean creature ever recorded — was recently discovered off the coast of Australia.Siphonophores are made up of tiny individual zooids, or clusters of cells…

A breakthrough in breeding an endangered coral could have huge implications for the Florida Reef Track, with researchers managing for the first time to reproduce the at-risk animals. Coral reefs can take hundreds or even thousands of years to form, but the impact of overfishing, rising temperatures, ocean pollution, and…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will take over responding to seal, whale, and dolphin strandings for the New England Aquarium starting May 1, the organizations announced in a joint-statement Thursday. Officials from the aquarium said this change will allow its researchers to focus on rescuing the increasing number of…

A radar image of the two-mile-wide tornado that struck southeastern Mississippi on April 12, 2020, ... causing EF-4 damage. Gibson Ridge/NOAA The National Weather Service released a sobering preliminary analysis of one of the deadly tornadoes that tore across southern Mississippi on Easter Sunday. Meteorologists who surveyed the damage left…

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 15 April 2020 Status Report From: Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA) Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast SDF Number 106 Issued at 2200Z on 15 Apr 2020 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity…

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Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 14 April 2020 Press Release From: Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA) Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast SDF Number 105 Issued at 2200Z on 14 Apr 2020 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity…