NOAA's vast public weather data powers the local forecasts. A private company alone couldn't match it
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it's headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...
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Why Private Forecasting Companies Can't Replace the National Weather Service
NOAA partners with private sector, academia, nonprofits and many others around the world to ensure that everyone has the best information to produce the most robust weather forecasts. Private weather ...
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How Much Does Your Surf Report Rely on NOAA?
If you don’t rely on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to plan for a safe and/or at least propitious ...
What will Oregon’s spring look like? Old Farmer’s Almanac and the NOAA have different predictions
Spring starts on Thursday, March 20, and according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the western half of Oregon is in for a warm ...
Cold front bringing freezing weather to Fort Worth. Here’s when temperatures drop
Thursday will warm up to the low 40s for the daily high and dip into the low 30s that evening. Freezing temperatures and wind chills will continue early Friday, Feb. 14, and gradually warm up into the ...
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Fears mount as Trump administration tells NOAA to make list of climate grants
The NOAA is getting increasingly anxious after the Trump administration instructed staff to provide a list of grants related ...
Rescued sea lions spent weeks recovering in California. See them return home together
On Jan. 31, two rescued female sea lions were returned back to the ocean, according to a Feb. 3 Instagram post by SeaWorld ...
Atmospheric River Map Shows Where in California Will Be Hit
An atmospheric river event is forecast to rainfall, snow, and the potential for flooding to parts of California this week.
Northern Lights May Be Visible in Several States Today
Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, as well as parts of Idaho and South Dakota, appear within the low-to-medium range of NOAA's ...
Private companies couldn't match NOAA's vast public weather data powers
A lot of the weather information Americans rely on starts with real-time data collected by NOAA satellites, airplanes, ...
NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it
NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by ...
What Is NOAA? - A Primer
According to NOAA’s website, the mission of the U.S. government agency is, “To understand and predict changes in climate, ...