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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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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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NOAA predicts a near-normal 2023 Atlantic hurricane season

NOAA forecasters with the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, predict near-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic this year. NOAA’s outlook for the 2023 Atlantic ...
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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 ...
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2020 was Earth’s 2nd-hottest year, just behind 2016

The average land and ocean surface temperature across the globe in 2020 was 1.76 degrees F (0.98 of a degree C) above average — just 0.04 of a degree F (0.02 of a degree C) cooler than the 2016 record ...
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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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Highly active hurricane season likely to continue in the Atlantic

“The hurricane season got off to an early and violent start with Hurricane Beryl, the earliest category-5 Atlantic hurricane on record,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “NOAA’s update to ...
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Coral reefs: Essential and threatened

Coral reefs are threatened by a range of human activities. Many of the world’s reefs have already been destroyed or severely damaged by an increasing array of threats, including pollution, ...
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Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review for Proposed Regulatory Amendment to the Regulations Governing Taking of Northern Fur Seals for Subsistence Purposes

- Select citation style - APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition MLA (Modern Language Association) 8th edition Plain Text ...
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Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone

The location of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is readily identified as a line of cumulus clouds in the tropics. This is where northeast winds from the Northern Hemisphere converge with the ...