Jump to Content

All media releases

Content

540 items

NOAA predicts near-normal 2019 Atlantic hurricane season

More On

Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida on October 10, 2018. With winds as high as 160 mph, the Category 5 storm slammed coastal towns in the area, leveling buildings and structures, flooding streets and leaving a trail of destruction.

NOAA predicts above-normal 2019 hurricane season in the central Pacific

More On

hurricane season

This NOAA GOES-15 satellite image shows Hurricane Lane positioned about 300 miles south of Hawaii's Big Island at 2 p.m. ET on August 22, 2018.

NOAA & Air Force Reserve ‘Hurricane Hunters’ to visit East Coast on preparedness tour

More On

hurricane hunters

Weather-ready Nation

Visitors line up for tours aboard the U.S. Air Force WC-130J in Galveston, Texas, on May 18, 2016.

New OceanReports tool brings ocean data to your fingertips

More On

Using OceanReports, you can tap more than 100 NOAA datasets at once for any part of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. Here, you can see data for the siting of offshore wind power farms.

Hurricane Michael upgraded to a Category 5 at time of U.S. landfall

More On

NOAA's GOES-East captured this image of Hurricane Michael as it came ashore near Mexico Beach, Florida on Oct. 10, 2018. According to the National Hurricane Center, Michael intensified before landfall with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, heavy rainfall, and deadly storm surge.

U.S. hurricane forecasters embark on preparedness mission to Mexico and Caribbean

More On

hurricane hunters

Visitors wait to board NOAA and USAF Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft in Panama City, Panama during the 2018 Caribbean Hurricane Awareness Tour.

Spring Outlook: Historic, widespread flooding to continue through May

More On

Levees along the Missouri River have failed during ongoing flooding in Fremont County, Iowa damaging homes and displacing residents in this photo from March 17, 2019.

Florence and Michael retired by the World Meteorological Organization

More On

GOES-East satellite image of Hurricane Florence making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018.

NOAA satellites helped rescue 340 people in 2018

February 14, 2019

More On

A U.S. Coast Guard crew, a vital component of SARSAT, conducts ocean search and rescue training.

NOAA announces the arrival of El Nino

February 14, 2019

More On

El Nino, La Nina, ENSO

This image shows the difference from average sea surface temperatures at the Equator in the tropical Pacific during January 2019, as compared with the period from 1981-2010. On February 14, 2019, NOAA announced that El Nino has arrived, but it's likely to be weak with little influence on weather through early Spring 2019.

Pages