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NOAA satellites are tracking the record number of wildfires that have been raging across Alaska since early June, likely brought on by lighting strikes from thunderstorms.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.

The sun is acting out, and solar weather forecasters are baffled. But one scientist might know what's going on.

A Saharan Air Layer is moving from the coast of Africa to Florida this week, where it will bring high temperatures and dryness as it suppresses storm activity.

The federal government is close to releasing new rules that the shipping industry might have to comply with to help protect a vanishing species of whale.

The USS Monitor sank in a region known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, due to an estimated 2,000 shipwrecks.

A federal science agency says that levels of the main global warming gas have shot past a key milestone.

The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone -- more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times -- and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal scientists announced Friday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its long-time monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, averaged 421 parts per million of carbon dioxide for the month of May, which is when the crucial greenhouse gas hits its yearly high. Before the industrial revolution in the late 19th century carbon dioxide levels were at 280 parts per million, scientists said, so humans have significantly changed the atmosphere.

It's expected to be another above-average hurricane season. Here's what you need to know to be ready.

New weather satellites, including the COSMIC-2 and TROPICS satellites, will collect valuable data to improve hurricane forecasting in 2022.

Hurricane season starts Wednesday and it's looking busy: Every factor out there is pointing to another nasty year in the Atlantic.

Swimmers and boarders warned to say from aggressive dolphin on North Padre Island

Why is the USS Monitor not deteriorating as expected?

NOAA has announced that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be more active than average for the seventh year in a row.

Federal meteorologists say the Atlantic should expect another busy hurricane season this year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts 14 to 21 named storms, with six to 10 becoming hurricanes. (May 24)

Federal forecasters expect more hurricanes than usual this year. Climate change is driving larger, more destructive storms. This is the seventh year in a row with an above-average forecast.

The Atlantic season has experienced a growing number of destructive, rapidly intensifying hurricanes over the past several decades.

Federal meteorologists say the Atlantic should expect another extra busy hurricane season this year.

Meteorologists expect the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, from June 1 to Nov. 30, to be the seventh consecutive season to be above average.

A trio of moderate flares blasted off from the sun on May 19, 2022, and there might be more in store.

The NHC began its daily tropical outlooks on Sunday, two weeks ahead of the official start of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1-Nov. 30.

Two sperm whales have died within a week of each other in the Florida Keys, but officials did not immediately see a connection between the deaths.

Two sperm whales have died within a week of each other in the Florida Keys, but officials didn’t immediately see a connection between the deaths.

A new study links how many hurricanes form worldwide to air pollution levels.

Scientists are keeping an eye on a sunspot that fired off an X-class flare while "having an identity crisis," according to SpaceWeather.com.

The hurricane center expects the wave to continue moving off the African coast and into the Atlantic.

A surprising new photo from the GOES East satellite has revealed what appears to be the word "Go" written in the clouds as seen from space.

The planet's coral reefs are facing a number of challenges, including coral bleaching.

We also got a glimpse from a solar telescope in Chile.

NOAA projects extreme heat and dryer conditions in June, July and August mostly covering Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho.

“Ida” was retired from the list of tropical storm names during the World Meteorological Organization’s annual hurricane committee.

Despite a U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia, it is still finding its way in by way of China.

Despite a U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia, it is still finding its way in by way of China.

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Like the U.S. seafood industry, Russian companies rely heavily on China to process their catch. Once there, the seafood can be re-exported to the U.S. as a “product of China” because country of origin labeling isn’t required.

Officials are asking for the public’s health to find who was responsible after the body of a dolphin was found on a Florida beach that had been impaled with a spear-like object when it was still alive.

Levels of carbon dioxide also increased at a "historically high rate," NOAA said.

Methane, a key component of natural gas, is 84 times more potent than carbon but doesn't last as long in the atmosphere before it breaks down.

While friendly close contact is essential to dolphin social bonds, sharing space and air can also quickly spread disease

NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory captured yet another solar flare blasting from the same overactive sunspot that triggered radio blackouts and stunning aurora displays on Earth earlier this week.

Tornadoes are causing more deaths and destruction in the Southeast — and they're often doing it in the dark of night.

The 21st century tornado problem is far different from ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ Killer tornadoes hit the Southeast far more than they do in Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas.

California water officials are set to tell major water agencies that they will get even less water from state supplies than the small amount they were promised to start the year.

U.S. government forecasters see a hot spring for much of the nation with drought in the West likely deepening.

The NOAA said this spring's drought represents the largest the country has seen since 2013.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake was reported 41 miles from Namie, Japan. The epicenter was further than 100 miles from any city.

Two mild geomagnetic storms are expected to hit Earth on March 14 and 15 after a large coronal outburst, NOAA warns.

Regardless of where you live, severe weather can strike while you're out on the road, so how do you prepare? CBS2's Vanessa Murdock shows us what should be in your car.

By Lee BullenU.S. space agency NASA has launched the latest weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), aimed to “help keep people safe” from hazardous weather and environmental conditions on the U.S. West Coast. The satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will boost weather forecasting across America’s West Coast and the Pacific Ocean. The GOES program also predicts space weather near Earth that can interfere with satellite electronics, GPS and radio communications,” the statement said. The GOES-T weather satellite will be renamed GOES-18 when it reaches geostationary orbit, where it will begin tracking wildfires, floods, droughts, and other severe weather phenomena over the U.S. West Coast and Pacific Ocean. The National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service is part of the Department of Commerce.

The third of four upgraded GOES satellites will help monitor weather affecting the entire United States.

Scientists will soon have a powerful new set of eyes in the sky to study Earth's weather and climate.

America's newest weather satellite has blasted off on a mission to improve wildfire and flood forecasting in the West.

The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to lift off today (March 1) during a two-hour window that opens at 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT). Watch it live here.

The new GOES-T satellite will correct a cooling issue, track weather and provide valuable data for responding to the climate crisis.

NASA and NOAA have cleared the new GOES-T weather satellite is "go" for a March 1 launch.

The prototype system, developed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is designed to alert operators when their spacecraft may be on a collision course with another object.

"Within seconds we realized, oh my God, a pack of killer whales is attacking a blue whale," researcher John Totterdell from the Cetacean Research Centre in Australia, told NPR.

A female humpback whale traveling with a male and a calf has been freed after it was found entangled in a line with a large bundle of marine debris attached.

Cities are experiencing heavier storms and flooding as the climate gets hotter. But due to outdated rainfall records, many are still building infrastructure for the climate of the past.

A group of fishing companies in New England is bringing its bid to try to end industry-funded monitoring programs to federal appeals court.

The International Space Station will plunge into the sea in January 2031, NASA has announced.

The NOAA weather satellite will move into the orbital position now occupied by GOES-17, which has an instrument issue.

In a story Jan. 31 about the longest lightning flash on record, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the bolt was cloud-to-cloud, several thousand feet above the ground, and no one was in danger.

Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Maui has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear and a plastic trawling buoy.

Last year was another hot one for planet Earth. It tied with 2018 for the sixth hottest year on record on Earth, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) report on global average surface temperature. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which did its own study, said 2021 was slightly warmer, pushing 2018 to the Number 7 slot. These are two United States government agencies that have been tracking temperatures for decades.

Two U.S. science agencies say 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming trend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s team will add a Gulfstream 550 to the three other aircraft at its home base at the Lakeland Linder International Airport in central Florida.

Some parts of the Northern Great Lakes region were greeted by their first significant snowfall of the season earlier this week, but not even the arrival of the fluffy white stuff could mask these historic times for the Great Lakes themselves.

Federal meteorologists say there's another La Nina, which can be bad news for parts of the parched West.

It's going to be a rough weekend in the water for beachgoers along the U.S. east coast.

U.S. regulators are banning swimming with Hawaii's spinner dolphins.

Hurricane Sam has strengthened again to a powerful Category 4 storm.

Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 3 storm in the Atlantic but it poses no threat to land as it loops northward in the Atlantic.

Hurricane Olaf has slipped back to tropical storm force after slamming into the Los Cabos resorts at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula with 100 mph winds and then drenching the region with torrential rains.

Hurricane Olaf is closing in for a strike on the Los Cabos resort region at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Tropical Storm Nora is dropping heavy rains along the Gulf of California after weakening from a hurricane that set off floods and landslides on Mexico’s Pacific coast, caused havoc in Puerta Vallarta and left at least one dead and seven missing.

Hurricane Nora has weakened to a tropical storm as it causes floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast.

They may not live in a pineapple, but they’re certainly hanging out under the sea.

U.S. weather officials say Earth in July was the hottest month ever recorded.

Forecasters say tropical depression Fred is slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status on Saturday.

Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday.

On the forecast track from Friday into Monday, Fred is set to cause heavy rainfall that could lead to exacerbated flooding across southern and central Florida and into the Big Bend of Florida.

Tropical Storm Fred has weakened to a tropical depression while sweeping over the Dominican Republic and dumping heavy rains that forecasters warn could cause dangerous flooding and mudslides there and in neighboring Haiti.

Heavy rains are pelting the northern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Fred has formed just south of Puerto Rico following a quiet month of no named storms in the region.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

The US West is getting hit with a triple whammy of record heat, megadrought and wildfires — and just a handful of numbers explains the how and why of this wild and deadly weather.

Researchers are expecting another mild algae outbreak on Lake Erie this summer.

Scientists say the annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began.

Forecasters expect yet another busy Atlantic hurricane season this year, but they say it won't be as crazy as 2020.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced its initial outlook for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season Thursday afternoon during a virtual media briefing.

America's normal temperature is now a degree hotter than just 20 years ago.

A crew has returned from the northernmost islands in the Hawaiian archipelago this week with a boatload of marine plastic and abandoned fishing nets that threaten to entangle endangered Hawaiian monk seals and other animals.

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1, and Colorado State University forecasts that we could see an above-average number of storms.

Leatherback sea turtles have been plying the world's oceans for tens of millions of years, but scientists say a rapid decline in their numbers means they could disappear from U.S. West Coast waters within decades.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday, March 22, 2021, that it will not consider a fishing group's attempt to challenge the creation of a large federally protected area in the Atlantic Ocean. The group sued to try to get rid of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which became the first national ocean monument in the Atlantic when President Barack Obama created it in 2016. The group sued to try to get rid of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which became the first national ocean monument in the Atlantic when President Barack Obama created it in 2016. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the creation of a national monument was “of no small consequence,” but the petitioners did not meet the criteria to bring it before the Supreme Court. “The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument at issue in this case demonstrates how far we have come from indigenous pottery,” Roberts wrote.

And nearly all of the continental United States is looking at warmer than normal spring, except for tiny parts of the Pacific Northwest and southeast Alaska, which makes drought worse. “It’s definitely something we’re watching and very concerned about.”NOAA expects the spring drought to hit 74 million people. AdMore than 44% of the nation is in moderate or worse drought, and nearly 18% is in extreme or exceptional drought — all of it west of the Mississippi River. AdWinter and spring wheat crops also have been hit hard by the western drought with 78% of the spring wheat production area in drought conditions, Rippey said. That leaves more of the energy to heat up the air, and the heat makes the drought worse by boosting evaporation.

(NOAA via AP)With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season. AdMeanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is recalculating just what constitutes an average hurricane season. STARTING EARLIERMIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said “this whole idea of hurricane season should be revisited." So a warming world means the new normal is busy hurricane seasons just like the last 30 years.

Just how warm Earth stays this December will determine if 2020 goes down as the hottest year on record. Earth’s temperature in November was 56.95 degrees (13.87 degrees Celsius), which was 1.75 degrees (0.97 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average, according to NOAA. Florida, Virginia and Maryland so far have had their hottest year on record, while California had its hottest fall. For its part, NASA said 2020 so far is the warmest on record and it's likely to stay that way. Using NASA data, if December is just 0.59 degrees (0.33 degrees Celsius) above the 1980 to 2010 average, 2020 should be the hottest year on record.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A record-setting Atlantic hurricane season that saw the highest number of named storms officially came to a close Monday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season set multiple records while producing a record 30 named storms. NOAA said an average season has 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three become major hurricanes. The prior record for named storms hitting Louisiana in a single hurricane season is 4 set in 2002,” Klotzbach said. NOAA said this was the fifth consecutive year with an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with 18 above-normal seasons out of the past 26.

Tropical Storm Eta is parked off the western coast of Cuba, dumping rain. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Theta — which formed overnight and broke a record as the 29th named Atlantic storm of the season — is chugging east toward Europe on the cusp of hurricane status. The system now has a 70% chance of becoming the 30th named storm. Never before have three named storms been twirling at the same time this late in the year, Klotzbach said. The overall message is that everyone in the area should pay attention to Eta, Brennan said.

Hurricane Zeta passed through Wednesday leaving much of the city and metro area without power. Even as Zeta battered the south, the upcoming election was still on the mind of some residents. “Guys, we received the brunt of Zeta, and Zeta gave us a good punch,” McInnis told WDSU-TV. More than 875,000 customers were without electricity in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, including about 350,000 in metro New Orleans. Winds could be “especially severe” in the southern Appalachian Mountains, where flash flooding is possible, the hurricane center said.