A ship reporting rising atmospheric pressure 600 miles west of Ireland helped forecasters see a window of opportunity to ...

One of the most common and important jobs for satellites is the monitoring of Earth's weather. While the first weather imaging satellite entered the planning stages in 1946, it would take 14 years ...

The TIROS III satellite detected “an area of disturbed weather a hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands,” explains NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory.

Weather always has been important to the citizenry of this country, especially with its history rooted in agriculture ... The first weather satellite, TIROS 1 was launched in 1960.

The long and tragicomic history of fixing the sky—of rainmakers, rain fakers, weather warriors ... destroyed several communication satellites, and damaged about 300 streetlights in Hawaii ...

The satellites, suddenly struggling against a much thicker medium, begin losing altitude. The new paper points out that space weather forecasts ahead of the May storm failed to accurately predict ...

“It is a long, sad history,” said Dennis Hartmann ... a decade ago with an effort to merge military and civilian weather satellites into a single project. After its cost doubled and its ...

Earlier in the company’s history, Tomorrow tried to improve ... what may have been the first commercially built weather radar satellite, producing measurements comparable to NOAA’s ground ...

Satellite imagery — showing scenes of extreme weather from space — reveals a ... Eighteen of the top 20 largest wildfires in California state history have occurred since 2003.

That's what the latest weather satellites are designed to provide: eyes high in the sky that relay essential life-saving weather data quickly back to Earth. While most of us never give a second ...