NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the British Geological Survey have released their joint Technical Report for the 2025 World Magnetic Model (WMM 2025), the standard navigation model for the U.S. Department of Defense and the global public which provides critical global data for navigation systems on ships, aircraft, satellites, antennas and even your…
How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast This image captures the modeled propagation of the tsunami wave generated by an 8.8 magnitude megathrust earthquake off the coast of Kamchatcka, Russia on July 29, 2025. (Image credit: NOAA Research) Download Image August 19, 2025 Research 0 Off Source…
Sparked by a major thunderstorm complex rumbling over the Great Plains, a single megaflash lightning bolt captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite was recently certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the world’s longest flash on record. The horizontal distance of the bolt stretched 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., when…
Forecasters from NOAA’s National Weather Service updated the number of expected named storms to 13-18 (with winds of 39 mph or greater), of which 5-9 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or greater), including 2-5 major hurricanes (winds of 111 mph or greater). The adjusted ranges are for the entire season from June 1…
Key Point: Warm overnight minimum temperatures set July records, impacting more than 55 million people across the eastern states. In July, 1,434 flash flood warnings—the second-highest July total in 40 years—and 17 flash flood emergencies were issued nationwide, along with over 2,000 preliminary flood-related storm reports. Most notably, catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country…
NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations will hold a hiring event in Norfolk, Virginia, to recruit professional mariners to work aboard NOAA’s ocean research ships. The event will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at the NOAA Marine Operations Center – Atlantic. NOAA operates a fleet of 15 hydrographic survey, oceanographic research and fisheries survey vessels….
July 2025 was planet’s 3rd warmest on record A man cools off in the Barcaccia fountain during an ongoing heat wave where temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius (about 104 degrees F). Location: Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy. July 1, 2025. (Image credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images) August 12, 2025 Climate Satellites monthly climate report climate analyses…
Experts from NOAA, NASA, BAE Systems, academia and industry will hold a virtual media briefing to preview the upcoming mission of NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory. SWFO-L1 will be NOAA’s first satellite observatory designed specifically for – and fully dedicated to – continuous, operational space weather observations. Space weather can…
A tow boat pulls an abandoned vessel from a marina in the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Anacostia Riverkeeper) Communities around Washington, D.C. are working to address the issue of abandoned and derelict vessels in the Anacostia River. Funded by the NOAA Marine Debris Program and led by the Metropolitan Washington…
A welder from Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC, welds the initials of the Surveyor’s sponsor, Tracey L. Brennan, onto a steel plate that will be incorporated into the ship, in keeping with maritime tradition, at a keel-laying event for the new ship on August 14, 2025, in Houma, Louisiana. (Image credit: NOAA) Source link
