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Winter Warmth — NOAA’s January summary is out, along with its outlook for spring. Scott K. Johnson - Feb 22, 2020 1:45 pm UTC NOAAWe’re off to a hot start in 2020, with January setting a new mark as the warmest instance of that month on record for the globe.…

Killer whales in Antarctica, as shown here, often display a yellow coloration due to diatom accumulation on their skin, evidence that they are not sloughing skin in frigid waters. Image collected by John Durban (NOAA Fisheries) and Holly Fearnbach (SR3) using a remotely controlled hexacopter drone at 100-foot altitude, authorized…

There is so much talking and opining about the status of the United States and its weather modeling capabilities these days. Candidly, it has gotten to the point that I sort of “eye roll” when I see a Tweet or Blog about it. Yes, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather…

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the United States will triple its operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity, and double its storage and interconnect speed, thanks to the installation of a pair…

Every 10 minutes, the relentlessly warming oceans absorb 50 megatons of energy, the amount of energy released when detonating the largest-ever atomic bomb. These warming seas — which soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth — harbor a particularly loud critter found all over the…

It's not easy to do pregnancy tests on whales. You can't just ask a wild ocean animal that's the size of a school bus to pee on a little stick. For decades, the only way scientists could count pregnant females was by sight and best guesses based on visual characteristics.…

Jackson, Mississippi homeowners use shovels to work their way through Pearl River floodwater.Photo: APThis week, the Pearl River in Jackson, Mississippi crested at 36.67 feet, the river’s third highest crest on record. The deluge devastated the area, flooding the streets and thousands of homes. Entire neighborhoods went underwater, and residents…

An experienced hurricane hunting crew chasing a winter storm came across a far different discovery this past weekend. In what is known as St. Elmo's fire, footage of the forking electric discharge was captured on Saturday by pilots as the spectacle flashed throughout the cockpit.The video, captured by the National…

California is having an extremely dry February.The satellite image above reveals why: A high-pressure system is directing the Pacific Ocean's atmospheric river — the stream that brings rain to the West Coast — towards Washington state.The majority of California is experiencing abnormally dry conditions and moderate drought.Visit Business Insider's homepage…

Earth just wrapped its hottest decade on record, and now the next 10 years are off to a similar, balmy start. Last month was the hottest January on record, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report released Thursday, which found January 2020 was 2.05 degrees Fahrenheit (or…