The Latest Breaking News from NOAA

On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia was named Cyclone Freddy. It rapidly strengthened and headed west across the Indian Ocean, eventually causing devastation in eastern Africa. Hundreds of people died, tens of thousands more were displaced, national energy grids were crippled, flash flooding was widespread…

After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break. Mountain ranges are covered in deep snow, and water reservoirs in many areas are filling up following a series of atmospheric rivers that brought record rain and snowfall to large parts of the region.

As deadly landslides struck the Natuna islands in Indonesia on Wednesday, the search for numerous missing individuals went on.

La Nina is a natural and temporary cooling of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.

Scientists say the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone after three troublesome years

New Jersey utility regulators are seeking additional offshore wind farm projects to generate electricity

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Record-setting snow in LA doesn't mean the state has recovered from its historic drought yet

As dead whales continue to wash ashore on the U.S. East Coast, officials and academics in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere are planning a wide array of monitoring and research aimed at preventing harm to the animals during construction and operation of offshore wind farms