“This will be a sort of weather forecast for Pacific Northwest harmful algal blooms,” said Parker MacCready, a UW professor of oceanography and member of the UW Coastal Modeling Group. Forecasts will be produced by the UW’s LiveOcean model, which creates three-day forecasts for Washington...
Carlis helped design an upgrade called Phased Array Radar, which can scan the sky and send data back to forecasters every 30 to 60 seconds, he said. The update time for the current technology is about 4 to 6 minutes. "Minutes matter when it comes to forecasting severe weather and tornado...
CBS News reported NOAA said critical employees were spared, but a source at the National Weather Service said that laid-off staffers included meteorologists, including radar specialists, aswell as staffof the Hurricane Hunters crew, which fly airplanes into storms to help forecasters make accurate...
Why a warmer and milder forecast? Blame El Niño. Sorry, fellow cold winter fans. We've had our chances the last two winters with cooling La Nina conditions that did OK...but did not deliver a really whopper of a winter. (Portland did get a fairly good punch two winters ago...) ...
The NOAA Radar and Weather Forecast app offers you the best radar map available on the store with more than 35 real-time and hyper accurate weather layers to choose from in order to plan your perfect day, week or vacation. There is no reason for the weather to surprise you anymore, with...
The agency's Atlantic hurricane season outlook comes exactly one week from theseason’s official start on June 1. What is a dropsonde? Hurricane hunters explain Dropsondes are tube-shaped sensor devices dropped into hurricanes to collect and transmit data for forecasters. ...
President Donald Trump shows an outdated NOAA forecast map, marked with black pen to include Alabama, during a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office on Sept. 4, 2019. Evan Vucci / AP The hurricane ultimately didn't make landfall in the United States, or come close to Alabama....
"With the absence of El Nino and La Nina, this year's winter outlook presents a challenge to seasonal forecasters," said Jim Laver, director of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. "Shorter-term climate fluctuations that are best predicted week-by-week are expected to play the dominate role ...
Critics of the administration’s plan to slash the agency — a directive that was outlined in Project 2025 — have said layoffs would further cripple America’s ability to accurately forecast hurricanes, tornadoes and other costly, deadly extreme weather. Meteorologists and computer engineers across...
which is welcome news for people in those areas of the country. The last two years have brought increased flood threats to much of the Mississippi and Missouri River basins, so the drier conditions that are forecast this year areactually considered a positive compared to what’s happening to ...