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NOAA Expected to Hire for ‘Mission-Critical’ Weather Service Positions
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it will hire for "mission-critical field positions" amid expert warnings that the National Weather Service has been cut too sharply ...
NOAA Firings Risk Lives and Economy, Former Agency Heads Warn
The federal weather and oceans agency touches people's daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America's economy, according to the ...
European Researchers See AI as Building Better Weather Data
European scientists who feed critical climate data to industry and researchers said that their next great breakthrough in weather forecasting will be powered by artificial intelligence. The European ...
Forecast Suggests La Niña Through Winter Is Highly Probable
A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said there is an 85% chance of La Niña conditions continuing through the upcoming Northern Hemisphere winter. The chance of the weather pattern ...
Extreme Weather Makes Weather Trackers Valuable to Insurers, Banks, Commodity Traders
Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. The senior vice president for weather at DTN, a Minnesota-based analytics firm, knows that an ...
Creating Added-Value Data Sets From Weather Model Forecasts
In the first part of this two-part series of articles, we examined the various weather models that drive most of the forecasts used by consumers and businesses to make weather-sensitive decisions. ...