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Weekend nor’easter likely to bring damaging winds, coastal flooding

Forecasters at NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) are monitoring a powerful nor’easter bringing damaging wind gusts and ...
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NOAA selects Tomorrow.io to help advance U.S. weather forecasting

NOAA has selected Tomorrow.io to provide contracting support for the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC), the backbone of NOAA’s operational weather forecast modeling suite. This contract ...
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Learn about funding opportunities

All competitive funding opportunities are announced through notice of funding opportunities (NOFOs) on Grants.gov (click here for a NOAA specific search). Each NOFO outlines the specific research ...
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JetStream Max: "A Funny Bath" - The Dead Sea

Location of the Dead SeaDownload Image No place on Earth is like the Dead Sea in the Middle East. Not really a sea but a large salt water lake, the Dead Sea is 47 miles (76 km) long and up to 11 miles ...
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New eDNA tool to help track recovery of sunflower sea star, a Pacific Coast ‘apex predator’

A wasting disease that surged during the intense 2013-2016 Pacific marine heatwave known as the Blob decimated numerous species of sea stars and triggered the collapse of vast coastal kelp forests ...
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NOAA announces end of traditional paper nautical charts

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, today announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who ...
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Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate retired by the World Meteorological Organization

Due to the extensive damage caused in the United States and Caribbean last year, the World Meteorological Organization’s Region IV Hurricane Committee has officially retired these names. Storm names ...
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Our Earth, at night

The Earth at night This composite image is from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. (NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, ...
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Earth just had its hottest June on record

Other notable climate events in the report Sea ice coverage hit a record low: Globally, June 2023 saw the lowest sea ice coverage (extent) for any June on record. This primarily was a result of the ...
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act (BIL-IRA) Awards Explorer

This Explorer was designed to allow users to find information about all grants and cooperative agreements (“awards”) funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with funding ...
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Communities can now apply for financial, technical help planning for extreme heat

Today, the Center for Heat Resilient Communities (CHRC) launched the application period for communities across the U.S. to get support to develop Heat Resilience Roadmaps as part of President Biden’s ...