For three days in 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off the only road to Port Fourchon. Officials had to decide: did the risk of future flooding justify the cost of raising the roadway out of the Gulf's rising waters?
Extreme Events
Central Pacific hurricane party: three’s company
September 3, 2015
Climate change is expected to intensify fire-friendly weather conditions across the US and to lengthen the fire season.
Late July’s stupefying heat indexes in southwest Iran
August 14, 2015
NOAA is helping the CDC build a new heat-health information system to help protect Americans from sweltering summers.
Record-setting bloom of toxic algae in North Pacific
August 6, 2015
A wet several days for southern California
July 28, 2015
Wildfires burn up western North America
July 24, 2015