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Record hot ocean temperatures and a tardy El Nino are doubling the chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. With the Atlantic hurricane season already well above normal so far, NOAA increased how many storms to expect and how busy the season can […]

HOUSTON—This year’s Atlantic hurricane season will bring an average number of ocean storms and hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. NOAA forecasters estimate 12 to 17 named storms of which five to nine of those will develop into hurricanes and one to four will become major hurricanes during the June […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Richard W. Spinrad announces enhanced technologies to help forecast weather to prepare for the coming hurricane season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) issues its outlook for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 25.

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service announces its Spring Outlook, predictions for temperature, precipitation, drought, and flood risk across the country at 11 a.m. ET on March 16. NOAA Climate Prediction Center Operational Prediction Branch Chief Jon Gottschalck and National Water Center Director Ed Clark discuss how the significant rain and […]

Federal meteorologists are forecasting a record-shattering seventh straight unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted Tuesday that the summer in the Atlantic will produce 14 to 21 named storms, six to 10 becoming hurricanes and three to six turbo-charging into major hurricanes with winds greater than 110 mph. Even […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is investigating the death of a dolphin that was impaled while alive in Florida. The bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. NOAA first learned about the animal on March 24, and staff from the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recovered the animal, […]

A potent system in the central US is stirring up severe weather this weekend that will move eastward early next week, impacting more than 50 million people. This system will move into an area with above-average temperatures and a lot of moisture surging in from the Gulf of Mexico, creating the perfect environment for thunderstorms. […]

PORTLAND, Maine—America’s lobster fishing industry will face a host of new harvesting restrictions amid a new push from the federal government to try to save a vanishing species of whale. The new rules, which have loomed over the profitable lobster industry for years and were announced Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), […]

Already smashing records, this year’s hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season is about to get even nastier, forecasters predict. In the coming months, they expect to run out of traditional hurricane names and see about twice as much storm activity as a normal year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday upped its seasonal forecast, now […]

A federal weather agency said that President Donald Trump was correct in saying Hurricane Dorian was at one point forecast to impact Alabama.

The coming Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to be near normal, with nine to 15 named storms, including four to eight hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, announced Thursday.

A new hurricane has formed, the third of the current hurricane season, and its projected path includes the East Coast of the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center issued an alert early on Wednesday, Sept. 5 announcing Hurricane Florence and stating that it was moving over the “open Atlantic.” Weather […]

After being caught in shrimp traps for five days, a 30-ton humpback whale off the Crescent City coast was successfully freed by a team of marine rescuers and volunteers on Tuesday afternoon, in what has been described as a Herculean effort by KTVU. The whale swam around the rescue team’s boat a few times after being […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Government scientists launched an investigation Thursday into an unusually large number of humpback whale deaths from North Carolina to Maine, the first such “unusual mortality event” declaration in a decade. Forty-one whales have died in the region in 2016 and so far in 2017, far exceeding the average of about 14 […]