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Scientists uncover future drought patterns and their impacts on global water resources

July 2, 2024

New research suggests that about one-third of the world’s land could see more frequent multi-year droughts under a low-emission scenario, and 62 percent could face more frequent and severe droughts under the highest-emission scenario.

NOAA's GOES-U launches to orbit

July 2, 2024

GOES-U is the latest addition to NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, enhancing weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and climate research.

Major progress in structural fire emissions research

July 2, 2024

To understand how structural fires at the wildland urban interface contribute to air pollution, recent tests measured gas and particle emissions from burning structural materials under realistic fire conditions.

Climate Resilience Toolkit team contributed to federal agencies' Climate Adaptation Plan updates

July 2, 2024

NOAA’s Climate Resilience Toolkit group recently worked with members of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to facilitate updates to federal agency Climate Adaptation Plans.

NIHHIS to release two new heat governance planning documents

July 2, 2024

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System will soon publish two new documents to help local communities evaluate their successes in heat governance and identify challenges and areas for future improvement.

U. S. climate outlook for July 2024

Mike Halpert | July 1, 2024

Across the United States, only Alaska has higher-than-average odds of a cool July. Elsewhere, July is favored to be much warmer than average. That heat forecast plays a big role in expectations for significant drought expansion this month.

How does NOAA see the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season shaping up?

Matthew Rosencrans | June 27, 2024

Matthew Rosencrans of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center tells us why NOAA predicts a very active Atlantic hurricane season.

Models test potential influence of global warming on 2023 record-low Antarctic sea ice

Michon Scott | June 26, 2024

Warming makes similar events more likely, but models may fail to capture important ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions.

Biden-Harris administration awards $4.9 to advance drought monitoring and prediction in US West through the Investing in America agenda

June 25, 2024

“This investment will support NOAA and its partners in better preparing Western communities for droughts in the coming years and decades.”

Caribbean and Pacific Islands receive awards for resilience projects

June 25, 2024

Eleven new projects aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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