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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 //

When smoke is in the air, all eyes turn to this NOAA weather model

NOAA's HRRR-Smoke model can help warn fire managers and local communities where heavy smoke will collect when a fire "lays down" overnight, as the Four Mile Fire did in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010.

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With #Alpha, 2020 Atlantic tropical storm names go Greek

Hurricane waves.

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50th anniversary spotlight: Building a Weather-Ready Nation

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

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Getting ready for the Atlantic hurricane season

More than 2500 students in the 4th and 5 grade took a tour of the NOAA WD-3D Orion Aircraft and met the crews who fly into the storms. The kids will take that information home to see if their families are ready for hurricanes. May 9, 2019.

INFOGRAPHICS //

When beaches are trashed, who pays the price?

Litter such as plastic detergent bottles, crates, buoys, combs, and water bottles blanket Kanapou Bay, on the Island of Kaho’olawe in Hawaii. This region is a hot-spot for marine debris accumulation.

LATEST MEDIA RELEASES //

Data initiative sets sights on tackling global ocean challenges

September 17, 2020

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IUU fishing practices hurt law-abiding fishermen, damage the economy, and threaten our food security.

NOAA improves marine navigation near Georgia and New Hampshire naval bases

September 10, 2020

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The ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee entering Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia.

NOAA joins federal maritime security team to support the American blue economy

August 28, 2020

Container ship operations at the Port of New York/New Jersey

FOR THE MEDIA //

NOAA monthly U.S., global climate report call: September 17

September 15, 2020

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

NOAA panel seeks feedback on implementing coastal and ocean mapping strategies

September 11, 2020

Cargo container operation at the Port of Anchorage, Alaska

NOAA, NASA to discuss solar cycle prediction Sept. 15

September 10, 2020

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Sun glowing in deep space.

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Historically what have been the coldest and warmest 1st days of spring?

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historic climate record

Spring flowers in snow.

Coronavirus/COVID-19 information from the CDC

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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For official, up-to-date information about the virus and how to prevent its spread, please visit the CDC's website, www.cdc.gov

Winter was the 6th hottest on record for U.S.

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climate analyses and statistics

February 11, 2020 -- An aerial photo of a levee failure that flooded the Springridge Place Subdivision in Yazoo County, Mississippi, following heavy rainfall. Four homes and a church were threatened.

Hot, cold or draw: Which climate conditions are mostly likely this March?

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climate outlooks

Across the eastern half of the U.S., March 2020 temperatures are more likely to be in the upper third of the 1981-2010 climate record (red colors) than in the middle or lower third. Darker colors mean higher chances, not more extreme temperatures.

NOAA Science Report highlights 2019 research accomplishments

May 18, 2019 -- Cherokee, Oklahoma: NOAA and partner scientists take observations from the core of a severe storm as part of the TORUS project, or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells, which is designed to understand relationships between severe thunderstorms and tornado formation.

NOAA's space weather and climate satellite DSCOVR is back in operation

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IMAGE - DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory - NESDIS image - 1600 x 900 original

POSTPONED, new date: Join us for the NOAA Open House and explore your world

February 28, 2020

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2018 NOAA Open House - NOAA mascot Owlie Skywarn with Hurricane Hunter pilots and NOAA Corps officers

National Weather Service: Protecting lives and property for 150 years

February 28, 2020

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Weather-ready Nation

A woman in the Weather Bureau station at National Airport (Washington, DC) is gathering surface weather observations at a Weather Bureau instrument panel on which are mounted barometers, thermometers, wind direction and velocity indicators, and other instruments for measuring weather elements, circa 1943.

Is this marsh 'happy'? Here's how to tell.

February 19, 2020

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This apparently healthy-looking tidal marsh within Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Rhode Island is, in fact, unhealthy. The image demonstrates how tidal marshes deteriorate in diverse and complex ways. (Undated image.)

Better wireless emergency alerts coming to a cell phone near you

February 19, 2020

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advisories, watches, or warnings

The massive amount of rain that fell on the Colorado Front Range in September 2016 was devastating, with nine lives lost and property damage estimated at more than $2 billion. Please don't let this happen to you: If you receive a Wireless Emergency Alert on your mobile device, please take action immediately.

January 2020 was Earth’s hottest January on record

February 13, 2020

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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.

NOAA, NASA: Climate change could trigger more landslides in High Mountain Asia

February 12, 2020

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New NOAA and NASA research predicting risk of landslides in High Mountain Asia may offer a good method to assess similar risks in Alaska, pictured here, and other areas of North America.

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