A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause ...

NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad is leaving the federal atmosphere and oceans agency at an uncertain, increasingly stormy time ...

The agency's updated strategy addresses the impacts of a warming climate on the regional economy and security.

W​eak La Niña conditions have formed and will likely last into early spring, according to a monthly update released by NOAA ...

Using weather balloons for detailed checks and satellites for a more global and continuous picture, scientists at NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, are part of a broad ...

The U.S. experienced a historic year of severe weather in 2024, with NOAA reporting 1,762 tornadoes from January to November—the highest in a decade. These storms were part of 24 billion-dollar ...

The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded ...

NOAA also found that last month, Arctic sea ice extent was the third-lowest ever recorded for November, while coverage was the overall lowest ever recorded for both the Antarctic and the globe in ...

A Nov. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a graph of U.S. Climate Reference Network temperature data from 2005 to 2024. The data in the graph is fairly scattered and it does not ...

NOAA has released its monthly outlook for January and with temperatures cold the last few days it looks like it will stay that way for a while. The temperature outlook over the next 8-14 days in ...

Though the full-year data was not yet fully complete, NOAA said 2024 has a greater than 99 percent chance of beating last year’s mark, which had been the highest since record keeping began in 1850.