UCS today delivered an open letter—with more than 3,300 signatory scientists and experts—to congressional leaders and Secretary Lutnick urging them to halt the ongoing assault on NOAA and restore staffing and funding for the agency.| Union of Concerned Scientists
NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate| Scientific American
Forecasters depend on satellites and flights to track hurricanes—but balloons add crucial precision| Scientific American
The Trump administration has proposed gutting NOAA’s cooperative institutes, which study everything from improving lifesaving weather forecasts to monitoring fish stocks| Scientific American
More tornadoes than usual have already struck the U.S. in 2025—and many of them have been touching down farther east than they had in the past| Scientific American
Why some tornadoes are able to travel so far and persist so long| Scientific American
Hurricane forecasters are debuting a new model they hope will better predict when some storms will suddenly and explosively intensify| Scientific American
Florida’s codes rank high, but those of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama are low| Scientific American
The U.S. has already seen a record number of disasters costing at least $1 billion in 2023, which underscores how unprepared the nation is to withstand climate-driven catastrophe| Scientific American
Hurricane forecasts are critical to government agencies that plan both pre- and post-landfall storm responses. More accurate forecasts enable these agencies to devote resources to the locations where they will matter most. In The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts (NBER Working Paper 32548), Renato Molina and Ivan Rudik estimate how improvements in weather forecast accuracy between 2007 and 2020 affected the average cost of pre-landfall protective spending and post-landfall damages and recov...| NBER
Craig McLean, the acting chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on Monday lamented what he said was insufficient funding for the agency to achieve its manda…| The Hill
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