Tag: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA Hurricane Hunters gather crucial data that is used to improve forecasts, but have faced budget cuts.  

Warmer ocean waters provide the energy hurricanes need to form, intensify and maintain their strength.

There’s still a chance for US Sens. Ashley Moody and Rick Scott to defend Florida’s chances of surviving brutal storms.

NOAA forecasters predict a 60% chance of an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30.

With NOAA forecasting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, we might just get a storm named 'Wendy.'

Sea surface temperatures are running warmer than the 30-year average, but not quite at record-breaking levels.

Florida's Coral Reef is one of the state’s most highly valued assets, providing benefits for tourism, fishing and flood protection.

Cuts in staffing and threats to funding at NOAA are diminishing operations that forecasters rely on.

Cuts to agencies and resources that help mitigate climate change are short-sighted at best, catastrophic at worst.

Billions of dollars in proposed NOAA cuts would make it difficult to prevent and mitigate red tide impacts.