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The Marshall Fire near Boulder, Colorado, raced with astonishing speed across thousands of acres. Some of the seeds of the destruction were sown last spring.

A cool, wet January is slightly favored across much of the North, with a warm, dry month favored for the South. Elsewhere, there are even chances for any outcome.

Continental System for High-resolution prediction on Earth-to-Local Domains (C-SHiELD) combines a global view of weather patterns with the ability to focus on regional and local weather. This helps meteorologists better predict smaller extreme storms over the continental United States.

Researchers have gained new insights about a marine heatwave in the Northwest Atlantic in 2017. Their newly published study shows how circulation patterns likely influenced the event

Ariane Arias-Ortiz discusses her journey to her current career.

Use this interactive map to browse a collection of animated gifs showing monthly sea level at U.S. tide-monitoring stations over their lifetimes.

Spectacular footage from inside a hurricane; a major ocean mapping milestone; new insights on the continued impacts of climate change, and much more. As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at a few of our biggest research stories of the last 12 months

Failed monsoon rains that reignited the southwestern U.S. drought. A spring heat wave in western Europe. Intense Siberian wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change made these extreme weather events more likely, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

NOAA and partners have launched approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic Ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction. These will bolster the international Argo Program, which maintains a global array of about 3,800 floats that measure pressure, temperature and salinity of the upper 1.2 miles of the ocean.

Data-driven tools will help communities accelerate equitable resilience.