Warm weather and low snowpack bedevil Western ski resorts

In Oregon, the Upper Deschutes Basin has had the slowest start to snow accumulation in records dating to 1981. Oregon, Idaho ...

A California fisherman may have broken records by catching a 10.25-pound canary rockfish

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California man caught a plump canary rockfish he says weighed in at 10.25 pounds, likely ...

I worked at NOAA for 30 years, and know Trump’s attack on Colorado’s world-class science labs puts us all at risk (Opinion)

The research activities NCAR and the NOAA labs in Boulder conduct are predominant sources of authoritative weather and ...
WUNC

Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center

The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize ...

Why 'hurricane hunters' will fly into Calif. atmospheric rivers this winter

As Californians break out umbrellas for a rainy holiday, specialized crews are gearing up to fly their planes directly into ...
Idaho State Journal

Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report

Across the Northwest, a record warm fall and lack of snowpack going into the winter is putting more drought pressure on ...

Was there a tornado in Knoxville last night? Storm causes damage, power outages.

The National Weather Service confirmed Dec. 19 that there was no tornado in Knoxville. Instead, the damage was caused by straight-line winds with speeds up to 50 miles per hour. As many as ...

148 mph?! How this week’s winds stack up to the biggest gusts in Colorado history.

On Wednesday, a 124 mph gust whooshed over the summit of Breckenridge Ski Resort’s Peak 6 — but even that isn’t close to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For 25 Years, the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program Has Kept Weekly Tabs on Volcanic Eruptions Around the World. Here’s How They Do It

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

NOAA rolls out AI weather models that promise faster, more accurate forecasts

The models were built and deployed by NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center in coordination with the National Weather Service. A spokesperson for the service, Erica Grow Cei, ...