NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Tropical Cyclone Vardah that showed strongest storms expanding west of the center. On Dec. 9 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)…
Unusually high air temperatures and a warm ocean have led to a record low Arctic sea ice extent for November, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data…
To better predict tropical cyclone intensity, scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
At century’s end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States — including sections of the…
As the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific 2016 hurricane seasons end today, NOAA scientists said that all three regions saw above-normal seasons. For the Atlantic, this was the first…
A new scientific review of the winter floods of 2015/2016 confirms that the event was one of the most extreme and severe hydrological events of the last century. The new…
The Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) Guidelines have undergone their first major update in 30 years. The new guidelines provide a significant improvement in best practice flood modelling, incorporating a…
Intense storms have become more frequent and longer-lasting in the Great Plains and Midwest in the last 35 years. What has fuelled these storms? The temperature difference between the Southern…
Members of the European Parliament approved €31.5 million in EU aid to repair flood damage in Bavaria in a plenary vote on Thursday, 01 December, 2016. Seven people died in…
According to a new study by think tank Green Alliance, England’s flood strategy failing and a new approach urgently needed from government to protect communities and stop costs spiralling. The…
Ohio State University researchers have found that a key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of…
Tropical Cyclone Tokage caused damage to homes and forced thousands to evacuate in the Philippines before moving into the South China Sea where it is expected to dissipate. NASA’s Aqua…
Beaches left decimated by the severe winter of 2013 to 2014 have still not recovered almost three years later, according to new research led by the University of Plymouth. The…
Torrential rain and floods hit south and eastern parts of Egypt at the beginning of November, killing 29 people and injuring at least 73 more. The sudden rise in waters…
The first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 19 November, 2016. The GOES-R is one of the most advanced weather satellites ever…
Satellites are keeping track of late-season Tropical Storm Otto as it threatens Central America. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Otto as it was briefly strengthening into a…
