Tag Archives: Noaa

Remote-controlled aircraft mimicking an unmanned drone will be sent this weekend to space by NASA in a first of its kind to intensely track and provide forecast of the movements and consolidation of hurricanes on the seas, in an ambitious project named Global Hawk. To be airborne until September, the global Hawk aircraft will fly essentially on the Atlantic Ocean ...

The State of the Climate in 2014 report compiled by NOAA has confirmed the NASA and NOAA report released earlier stating that the year 2014 was the hottest year on record based on insights collected from 413 scientists from 58 countries around the world. [Also see: 2014 Warmest Year on Record, Says NASA; Global Warming on Rise?] The inputs pondered indicators ...

Using modern scanning sonar, oceanographers have found an unknown ship wreck more than a mile deep off the North Carolina coast, with its artifacts indicating the period to the American Revolution period in the late 18th century when a young United States was expanding its trade with the rest of the world by sea. Marine scientists from Duke University, North ...

For the last one decade, NASA has been reporting that the year that ended was the warmest in a century and continues to say again that the year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, collaborating two reports by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. The 10 warmest years, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred ...

The Christmas Eve and following holidays will be mostly cloudy, beset with snow in many places as shown in a satellite image of  NOAA’s GOES-East satellite, that is up there to keep a weather eye for storms that may affect early travelers. The wide-field image created from GOES-East imagery shows two-thirds of the U.S. blanketed in clouds that are bringing areas of rain and snow across the ...

Now that North Carolina has begun assessing the loss left behind by Hurricane Irene, a look at how natural disasters devastated the United States economy reveals $750 billion in losses to the nation in the last 31 years. The U.S. has sustained 108 weather-related disasters since 1980 with the total normalized losses  exceeding $750 billion, adjusted to 2011 figures using ...