Tag: Weather
How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives
Just more than 100 years ago, on March 18, 1925, a tornado slashed across the U.S. Midwest with no warning at all and...
Fatal Storm Rips Through Oklahoma and Texas, Flooding Roads
A slow-moving storm brought deadly flooding to Oklahoma on Wednesday, shutting down roadways and sweeping away cars.Parts of Oklahoma and Texas were expected...
Trump Cuts Threaten Key NOAA Work to Improve Weather Forecasts and...
CLIMATEWIRE | Researchers in Oklahoma are hard at work on a new lifesaving weather forecasting system. In Michigan, they’re keeping tabs on toxic...
NOAA Reverses Plan to Defer Upkeep of Key Weather Satellites
NOAA Reverses Plan to Defer Upkeep of Key Weather SatellitesAgency officials said Monday that NOAA would continue to maintain the Joint Polar Satellite...
Amid Trump Cuts, NOAA Halts Upkeep of Critical Weather Satellites
CLIMATEWIRE | NOAA has begun to limit the work it devotes to maintaining a pair of polar weather satellites — putting at risk...
Map: Tracking Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Alfred was a tropical cyclone in the Coral Sea Monday evening Eastern time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its...
Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.When a hurricane or tornado starts to...
2025 Missions to the Sun Seek to Study Space Weather and...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Life as we know it couldn’t exist without the sun, but we know...
Vietnam’s Kumquat Trees, a Lunar New Year Staple, Have a Bad...
Vietnamese families preparing for the Lunar New Year traditionally buy the citrus trees as a symbol of good luck. But extreme weather has...
