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GOES-17 is now operational. Here’s what it means for weather forecasts in the Western U.S.

Earth's Northern Hemisphere, seen from NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, on Feb. 9, 2019.

OK Google, find humpback whales: NOAA works with Google AI to identify whale song

A humpback whale surfaces near Maui Island.

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Science and shipwrecks: Preserving America’s maritime history

USS Conestoga (AT 54), the last known broadside photograph taken likely during WWI when the tugboat was equipped with a 3-inch 50 caliber naval gun and two machine guns. The tugboat was later equipped with only a single 3-inch 50 caliber gun when it disappeared while en route from Mare Island to America Samoa, by way of Pearl Harbor in 1921.

STORIES //

Conserving whales, dolphins and porpoises in an ever-changing ocean

Right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) breaching.

NEWS //

January 2019 was 3rd warmest on record for the globe

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

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Video: Teaming up for entangled whales

Disentangling a North Atlantic right whale on the U.S. East Coast. This whale was carrying over 450 feet of line and a 135-pound trap used for fishing. Rescue activities performed pursuant to NMFS MMHSRP Permits #18786 and 15488.

PHOTOS & GALLERIES //

NOAA team sees Florence and Michael storm surge devastation first-hand

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

INFOGRAPHICS //

The science behind the polar vortex

The science behind the polar vortex.

LATEST MEDIA RELEASES //

NOAA satellites helped rescue 340 people in 2018

February 14, 2019

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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

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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.

Latest weather satellite will improve forecasts for western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii

February 12, 2019

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geostationary satellite (GOES)

GOES-17 is now operational as GOES West.

FOR THE MEDIA //

Advisory panel to focus on sea level rise, coastal inundation

February 20, 2019

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NOAA monthly climate call: February 21

February 19, 2019

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climate outlooks

global average temperatures

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

NOAA, NASA to announce 2018 global temperature, climate conditions

February 4, 2019

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

global average temperatures

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

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El Nino conditions are here

February 22, 2019

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El Nino, La Nina, ENSO

Sea surface temperatures.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center selects new director

February 22, 2019

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The view inside NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, the nation's official civilian source of space weather forecasts, advisories, watches and warnings.

2018's billion-dollar disasters in context

February 22, 2019

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

U.S. Army Sgt. Rodrigo Estrada of the California Army National Guard's 649th Engineer Company, 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, leads a team conducting search and debris clearing operations, Nov. 17, 2018, in Paradise, California. Image with full caption and credit available at https://flic.kr/p/2ahrTWy.

New marine pathogen forecasts for Gulf of Maine, Chesapeake Bay

February 22, 2019

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Do your part: Please help protect our estuaries

February 20, 2019

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Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

NOAA, recreation industry to strengthen sustainable fishing, boating in federal waters

February 20, 2019

Fishing.

January 2019 was 3rd warmest on record for the globe

February 19, 2019

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climate analyses and statistics

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

Video: Teaming up for entangled whales

February 15, 2019

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Disentangling a North Atlantic right whale on the U.S. East Coast. This whale was carrying over 450 feet of line and a 135-pound trap used for fishing. Rescue activities performed pursuant to NMFS MMHSRP Permits #18786 and 15488

Researchers track giant sea bass in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

February 15, 2019

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Channel Islands.

Whale Week: What is the longest-lived marine mammal?

February 14, 2019

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Bowhead Whale.

NOAA improves Etolin Strait data with new chart layout

February 14, 2019

NOAA Ship Fairweather.

Conserving whales, dolphins and porpoises in an ever-changing ocean

February 12, 2019

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Right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) breaching.

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