News on Meteorology

NOAA head details reforms of fishery enforcement

2010-03-18T15:01:21Z

<div id="subtitle">NOAA head details fishery enforcement reforms, seeks justification of penalties after report</div><div><p>The nation's oceans chief on Thursday detailed reforms on the ways fishermen are policed, including a proposal to force her agency to better justify penalties against them.</p><p>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...

NOAA warns of big floods after fierce winter

2010-03-16T10:31:17Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A huge snowpack from a harsh winter will cause extensive flooding this spring in the upper Midwest and in the major corn-growing state of Iowa, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday.</p><p>"We are looking at potentially historic flooding in some parts of the country this spring," Moorhead, Minn., the government confirmed residents' fears Tuesday, forecasting major flooding in the Midwest following a wetter than normal winter.</p><p>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.</p><p>"We are no longer constrained by ...

Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches

2010-03-11T21:45:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches, experts blame El Nino ocean currents</div><div><p>Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.</p><p>Veterinarian Richard Evans said Thursday that the NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites, adding to a constellation of spacecraft that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth.</p><p>The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:57 pm (2357...

El Nino dissipating, but may linger through 2010

2010-03-04T13:16:11Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern hemisphere, but there is a chance a weak version will linger for the rest of 2010, according to a U.S. government report issued Thursday.</p><p>The federal government's Climate Prediction Center said in a monthly up...

Inspector: US fishery officer shredded documents

2010-03-03T17:15:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Inspector: Top US fishery officer shredded documents during probe into enforcement of rules</div><div><p>The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday that the nation's top fishery cop destroyed documents while his office was under investigation for possible unfair enforcement of fishe...

NASA to launch latest high-tech weather satellite

2010-03-03T10:17:32Z

<div><p>The United States is poised to launch Thursday the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth from high in space.</p><p>The launch window for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) will open at 6:17 pm (2317 GMT) on Thursday and close an hour later, US space agency NASA...

Fishing Regulations

2010-03-02T13:46:19Z

Fisherman Al Cottone, left, points as he talks with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA , chief, Jane Lubchenco and other fishermen Gus Sanfilippo and Paul Vitale, right, on the wate...

Could Vancouver wet weather woes have been anticipated?

2010-02-28T12:00:33Z

<div><p>WHISTLER (Reuters) - Fog, record high temperatures, rain and wet snow affected so many events at the Vancouver Olympics that it begs the question of whether someone should have known trouble was likely.</p><p>Organizers were defiant as the competition wound down, saying they had been the victims of pure bad luck.</p><p&...

Snowpocalypse to snowicane: Hype reigns in winter

2010-02-27T11:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Hype reigns during winter, but some forecasters dislike AccuWeather's 'snowicane' prediction</div><div><p>The snowmenclature smackdown among meteorologists started with "snowmageddon" and "snowpocalypse." When the latest snow event — laden with flakes and whipped by heavy winds — headed for the storm-weary Northeast this week, the folks at AccuWeather Inc. warned of a coming "snowicane."<...

Asia braces for tsunami after Chile quake

2010-02-27T04:30:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Tsunami after Chile quake expected to reach Australia, Asian shores</div><div><p>Wide swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday.</p><p>Officials in Japan and Australia warned a t...

World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists

2010-02-25T07:30:29Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.</p><p>The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United ...

Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes

2010-02-21T10:45:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Experts settle hurricane and global warming feud; predict bigger storms, but fewer ones</div><div><p>Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.</p><p>Since just before Reuters) - Tracking Indian Ocean climate patterns could improve early-warning systems for the El Nino phenomenon, helping save lives and billions of dollars lost each year to the severe weather it causes.</p><p>In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, researchers in Japan and Africa and even Europe.</p><p>At present, scientists are unable to give little more than a few months' notice that an El Nino is in the offing, which is often too late for farmers, fisherme...

El Nino hurting drought-struck Philippine farms

2010-02-22T08:44:28Z

<div><p>The Philippines said Thursday that its farming industry could lose about 433 million dollars this year due a drought caused by the El Nino atmospheric phenomenon.</p><p>The damage estimates range from eight to 20 billion pesos (173 to 433 million dollars), depending on whether El Nino will cause a prolonged dry spell or a short one, said agricultural undersecretary Joel Rudinas.&...

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout

2010-02-22T09:49:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Take that Canada: Every US state has snow except Hawaii, but Vancouver goes begging</div><div><p>Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout.</p><p>It was the

New climate service aims to help business adapt

2010-02-22T10:45:09Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed new U.S. NOAA Climate Service is meant to help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change, and to spur development of new technologies to cope with it, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday.</p><p>"Even with our best efforts, we know that some degree of climate change is...