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Holiday Weekend Weather (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 07-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| Get your forecast through the Fourth of July holiday weekend from NOAA's National Weather Service. |
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: June 22-28 (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-23-2008 at 10:00:29
| Learn how to keep yourself safe during thunderstorms. If you hear thunder, you are within striking distance of the storm, so ?when thunder roars, go indoors.? |
Extreme Weather To Become More Common (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-19-2008 at 02:00:30
| New report highlights the likely changes in extreme weather and climate conditions under ongoing climate change. |
Latest Midwest Flooding Information (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-16-2008 at 03:00:33
| View the current and projected river levels across the flooded Midwest as predicted by NOAA's National Weather Service. |
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Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-13-2008 at 03:00:31
| View the current and projected river levels across the flooded Midwest as predicted by NOAA?s National Weather Service. |
It Was A Cool Spring for USA (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-06-2008 at 04:00:31
| Temperatures from March to May were the 36th coolest on record for the contiguous United States, according to NOAA?s National Climatic Data Center. May alone was the 34th coolest on record. |
Severe Storms for Central USA (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-06-2008 at 10:00:31
| NOAA's National Weather Service is forecasting severe weather through this weekend in parts of the central U.S. Be sure to have a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards for life-saving warning information. |
Severe Storms for Central USA (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-05-2008 at 09:00:34
| NOAA's National Weather Service is forecasting severe weather - including tornadoes - Thursday and Friday in parts of the central U.S. Be sure to have a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards for life-saving warning information. |
Tornado Season Could Be Record (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:00:42
| This year may set records for tornadoes and tornado-related deaths. Only halfway through the season and there have already been 111 tornado-related deaths, making it the deadliest tornado season since 1998. |
NOAA Primed for Summer Distress Calls (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:00:42
| NOAA satellites are primed for an inevitable summer spike in distress signals from emergency locator beacons. Through May, 139 people have been rescued in the U.S. this year. |
Rip Current Awareness Week: June 1-7 (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 06-02-2008 at 02:00:26
| NOAA is urging beachgoers to learn how to ?Break the Grip? of rip currents before getting into the water. Rip currents are a deadly threat ? accounting for more than 80 percent of lifeguard beach rescues. |
Hurricane Preparedness Week: May 25-31 (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-23-2008 at 02:00:31
| Reduce the effects of a hurricane disaster. Learn what to do before, during and after a storm at NOAA?s Hurricane Preparedness Web site. |
NOAA Initiates Three-Year $781,000 Project to Unravel Gulf Deadzone Mysteries (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| NOAA has awarded first-year funding of $284,000 to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) as part of a three-year $781,000 project to develop a better understanding of how nutrient pollution from the Mississippi River affects the large area of low oxygen water called the ?dead zone? in the Gulf of Mexico. The project will also look at how the dead zone affects commercially and recreationally important fish and shellfish.
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NOAA Begins Funding Project to Develop Chesapeake, Delaware Bays Hypoxia Forecasting Models (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| NOAA has awarded $330,000 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, in a five-year $1.8 million NOAA project to help resource managers analyze and predict how hypoxia, water quality, and fishery production respond to nutrient loading and climatic factors in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware inland bays. |
NOAA Initiates $1.4 Million Three-Year Project to Study Valuable Deep Hawaiian Coral Ecosystems (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| NOAA has awarded four Honolulu based organizations $500,000 for the first year of a three-year $1.4 million project to improve the understanding of deep water coral reef ecosystems in the Hawaiian Islands. |
NOAA Reports Record-Setting Tornado Outbreak for October (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| A total of 87 tornadoes were reported in the United States from October 17-19 ? a new record outbreak for the month, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. |
NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program Offers New Guide to Diving in America's Underwater Treasures (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| The NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program has developed a colorful new printed guide and Web page for scuba diving enthusiasts about diving in our nation's 13 national marine sanctuaries, home to some of America's most spectacular underwater sights. |
Antarctic Ozone Hole Returns to Near Average Levels (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| The size of this year's Antarctic ozone hole is slightly above the 10-year average in both depth and overall area, NOAA scientists announced today. |
NOAA Launches National Marine Debris Education Effort (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| NOAA today launched a comprehensive effort aimed at reducing dangerous marine debris. The Internet-based educational campaign for marine debris awareness and prevention answers President Bush's call to increase public awareness and understanding of the global problem of marine debris. |
Pilotless Aircraft Flies Toward Eye of Hurricane for First Time (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| A pilotless hurricane hunter is being flown by remote control into hurricane force winds for the first time to give researchers from NOAA and NASA a real time, low altitude look at a storm with hurricane category 1 winds hovering around 80 miles per hour.
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New NOAA Model Links Mississippi River Nutrient Outflow to Florida Red Tides (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| A new NOAA research model indicates nutrients flowing from the Mississippi River may stimulate harmful algal blooms to grow on the continental shelf off the west coast of Florida. The peer-reviewed hypothesis is being published in a special issue on Florida red tide in the journal "Continental Shelf Research." |
NOAA, USGS Warning System to Help Protect Southern Californians (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| A debris flow and flash flood warning system developed jointly by NOAA?s National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey will help protect Southern Californians from potentially devastating debris flows, commonly known as mud slides, and flash floods in and around burn areas created by the recent wildfires |
NOAA Scientist: Human Development is Important Indicator of Tidal Creek Health (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| A new NOAA study reveals that the level of human development activities, including roadways, sidewalks and roofs, in a watershed has a direct impact on the health of America's tidal creeks and may potentially threaten public health in those coastal areas. |
NOAA Proposes Limits for Three Fisheries to End Overfishing (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| NOAA Fisheries Service today proposed limits on fishing three key species in order to end overfishing and promote rebuilding of the stocks. The proposal is based on scientific analysis and recommendations of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. |
Endangered Right Whales Headed South for Winter (View Original Story)
Source: noaa.gov Posted: 05-22-2008 at 02:00:37
| To help protect the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale population, NOAA Fisheries Service is reminding mariners and fishers that the start of calving (birthing) season begins Nov. 15, and continues through April 15. Regulations and recommendations are in place to help protect these endangered whales during this critical period. |
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