UN chief defends science and weather forecasting as Trump threatens both

The United Nations chief has delivered a strong defense of science and weather forecasting as the Trump administration ...

Tropical Storm Melissa brings heavy rain to Haiti and Dominican Republic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on ...

What canceled climate data would have shown: The costliest 6 months of weather disasters on record

The Trump administration cut a NOAA program that had tracked weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damage. A ...

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 ...

NOAA Isn’t Tracking Disaster Damages Anymore. These Scientists Are.

A revived version of a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters shows a record-setting toll in the first ...

Tropical Storm Melissa tracker: Map and projected storm path

Tropical Storm Melissa has formed in the Caribbean Sea and is on a path toward Jamaica and Haiti. It is expected to bring ...

Will Austin have more warm and dry weather this winter? Here's what NOAA's outlook says.

Austin’s rainfall deficit from normal has grown to more than 7 inches so far in 2025, and NOAA's seasonal outlook doesn’t ...

The US saw a record $101 billion in weather losses in first half of year

Scientists tallied damage from severe weather events through June, which has become the costliest such period in 45 years of records, new reports said.

The federal government used to keep track of extreme weather disasters. Now it’s up to a nonprofit

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration ”retired” in May, has relaunched ...

New winter weather prediction offers clues on what to expect in Michigan

In the North, you can expect it to be colder and wetter; while in the South, warmer and drier, a new winter weather report says.

LA fires and 13 other disasters cost the U.S. over $100 billion, estimates show

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more ...

Office of Space Commerce faces an uncertain future amid budget cuts and new oversight

The Office of Space Commerce, an office of about 50 people, exists within the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. To paraphrase its mission statement, its chief ...