NWS News
NOAA’s Flood Inundation Mapping Tool Now Covers 60% of U.S.
The National Weather Service (NWS) recently announced that the experimental Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) tool has expanded to serve 60 percent of the U.S. population, up from 30 percent the ...
Fall Forecast Calls for Above Normal Temps, Mixed Precipitation Across U.S.
A warmer-than-average fall is expected this year, according to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center's August-October Outlook. As El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-neutral ...
Derecho’s 99 MPH Gust Swept Through Upper Plains, Midwest
Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...
Texas Officials Face Scrutiny Over Response to Deadly, Catastrophic Flooding
Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend's house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. ...
North Carolina Lake Town’s Dam Rebuilding Plans in Limbo After FEMA Cuts
When Hurricane Helene's flood waters slammed into Lake Lure's century-old dam last September, gouging a massive scar into one embankment and cascading five months' worth of rain down its sides, town ...
U.S. Official Reports NOAA ‘Fully Staffed’ With Forecasters, Scientists
[no_auto_dropcap}U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is "fully staffed" with weather forecasters and ...
More Hazardous Storms Expected in Already Battered Central US
More severe storms were expected to roll across the central U.S. this week following the weather-related deaths of more than two dozen people and a devastating Kentucky tornado. The National Weather ...
Deadly April Rainfall, Catastrophic Flooding Across U.S. Intensified by Climate Change
Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and made those storms more likely to occur, according to an analysis released ...