In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

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What Will Winter Bring? NOAA Outlook May Offer Some Clues.

Federal forecasters broke down the most likely scenarios around the United States this week.

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Senate Confirms Neil Jacobs, ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist, to Lead NOAA

Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season May Be About to Intensify

Experts at NOAA updated their prediction for the Atlantic on Thursday. Forecasters say there could be up to nine hurricanes before the end of November.

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Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online, Officials Say

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

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Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.

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The Future of Weather Prediction Is Here. Maybe.

Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil.

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Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming

Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways to protect shellfish in the Pacific Northwest, although Trump budget cuts may thwart their efforts.

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National Climate Report Website Goes Dark

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

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