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A data journalism piece analyzes 50,000 boat names from NOAA vessel traffic data, highlighting puns, jokes, and pop culture references, with an interactive searchable visualization.
Google Cloud named primary HPC provider for NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, enabling operational numerical weather prediction in the public cloud for faster simulations and life-saving warnings.
NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite has entered a safe hold mode, as reported by the Space Weather Prediction Center.
Former NOAA employees rebuilt the federal climate website Climate.gov as Climate.us using open government data after the Trump administration cut funding and took the original site offline, preserving over 15 years of key climate resources.
Scientists report a 20% improvement in hurricane forecasts using AI, but remain cautious about the technology's ability to handle unprecedented storms as climate change intensifies hurricanes.
A mysterious golden orb discovered three years ago on the ocean floor of the Gulf of Alaska has been identified as the discarded cuticle of a giant, rare anemone, Relicanthus daphneae, based on DNA and structural analysis.
NOAA predicts a below-average 2026 Atlantic hurricane season due to El Niño, but warns that even quiet years can produce catastrophic storms. The agency is deploying AI weather models developed with Google DeepMind to improve hurricane track predictions.