A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the ...

COURTESY ED LYMAN /NOAA Trained responder Maria Harvey works to entangle a humpback whale. Federal wildlife officials say two humpback whales were recently freed of life-threatening entanglements in ...

NOAA has declared a much-anticipated La Niña climate pattern to be underway, but the event is a bit unusual, as regions of the world have been experiencing La Niña-like conditions for months.

Last year was the hottest ever recorded, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released Friday. In 2024, Earth overall saw its highest global ...

El Niño and La Niña conditions can last for months or several years, according to the NOAA. They generally occur every two to seven years, with transition periods in between, but they don’t ...

Its delayed arrival may have been influenced — or masked — by the world’s oceans being much warmer the last few years, said Michelle L’Heureux, head of NOAA’s El Nino team.

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina ...

Using weather balloons for detailed checks and satellites for a more global and continuous picture, scientists at NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, are part of a broad ...

NOAA has released its monthly outlook for January and with temperatures cold the last few days it looks like it will stay that way for a while. The temperature outlook over the next 8-14 days in ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey announced the Magnetic North Pole has a new position. Global geomagnetic field modeler William Brown ...

A video shared on social media in June 2024 claimed to depict a sea serpent monster known as the "leviathan." The clip showed what appeared to be Google Earth or Maps data of an island that, when ...

NOAA’s recently proposed Highly Migratory Species Amendment 15, or simply Amendment 15 as it has become known, has raised concern among many recreational anglers and rightfully so. Despite receiving ...