(The Center Square) – Hoping to create “the world’s best weather forecasting system,” U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., sent ...

Lawmakers from both parties have so far rejected steep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

They say defunding the research program would carry great costs − forecast improvements have saved ... and mischaracterizes how NOAA research supports daily forecasts for all kinds of extreme weather.

They say defunding the research program would carry great costs − forecast improvements have saved ... and mischaracterizes how NOAA research supports daily forecasts for all kinds of extreme weather.

Extreme storms and other natural disasters are increasingly costly. These ten states are best equipped to take whatever ...

Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters. But that’s not going to happen, because NOAA in May 2025 stopped ...

After a tornado, the National Weather Service conducts an on-site damage survey, examining its track and destruction. That survey forms the basis for the official estimate of a tornado’s strength on ...

Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem Tornadoes in May 2025 destroyed homes in communities in several states, including London, Ky. AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley ...