Forecasters Say Planet-Warming El Niño to Form by September March 13, 2026 By Lauren Rosenthal Scientists at the U.S. Climate Prediction Center project a 62% chance that an ocean-heating El Niño would emerge during the...
New York Report Calls Weather Consequences ‘Dire and Growing’ November 6, 2025 Severe weather events are increasing in New York and certain types of events, including thunderstorm-related damaging wind and flash flooding,...
The US Saw Record $101 Billion in Weather Losses Through June October 22, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal The U.S. saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025,...
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed August 6, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally...
Commerce Secretary Responds: NOAA ‘Fully Staffed’ With Forecasters, Scientists June 5, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is “fully staffed”...
No NOAA Large-Disaster Data Could Hurt Insurer Grasp of Secondary Perils, Says AM Best May 21, 2025 Insurance industry financial strength rating agency AM Best said today that a decision to stop updating a National Oceanic and...
Why Trump’s Plan to Stop Tallying Weather Losses Matters to the Insurance Industry May 9, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K. Sullivan Extreme weather is an increasingly expensive problem in the U.S. Last year, fires, droughts and storms caused more than $182...
White House Proposes to Eliminate NOAA Climate Research in Budget Proposal April 14, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici and Nichola Groom The administration of President Donald Trump aims to eliminate the arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that oversees...
Weather Experts Say US Forecasts to Worsen as DOGE Cuts Mean Fewer Balloon Launches March 25, 2025 By Seth Borenstein With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations,...
Critical Fire Conditions to Grip Texas’ Oil-Rich Permian Basin March 3, 2025 By Brian K. Sullivan Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected to affect more than 2.7 million people across the Southwest, lower Great Plains...