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

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.

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 ...

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.

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to shut down power grids on Earth, disrupt aircraft routes, global communications ...

“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 ...