National Weather Service
Recent News About National Weather Service
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U.S. supercomputers for weather and climate forecasts get major bump
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National Weather Service celebrates 10th anniversary of life-saving Wireless Emergency Alerts
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Kenneth Graham is the next NOAA assistant administrator for weather services and the 17th director of the National Weather Service, effective today, June 7, 2022.
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Ongoing La Niña, above-average Atlantic temperatures set the stage for busy season ahead
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Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, are predicting above-average hurricane activity this year — which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season.
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In July of 2021, the NWS began an experimental phase of an Experimental National Geographic Information System (GIS) Map Viewer (“the Viewer”) web application, and since then, we’ve made some changes that’d we’d love to hear from you about!The Viewer provides capabilities to display, interrogate, access, and discover data and easily assimilates this information so that those familiar with geospatial data and technology can seamlessly access and digest it.
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Notice that “impact-based decision support services” (IDSS) was added to the mission statement to reflect the significant contributions of “IDSS.
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Weather is one of the most important determinants of how easily a wildfire starts, how dangerous it is, how fast it spreads and where it goes.
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As Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano began to erupt on January 15, 2022, it sent more than tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean — some forms of communications in the region were sent into the dark, too.
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Dr. William Burnett is the new director of NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center — a division of NOAA's National Weather Service. As director, he is ensuring the nation's maritime safety by successfully operating the world’s largest real-time marine observation network.
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The year 2021 was marked by extremes across the U.S., including exceptional warmth, devastating severe weather and the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record.