Weather satellites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense will stop delivering data to NOAA on July 31. Here’s why and how it will change storm and hurricane forecasting.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Gil has become a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center ...

Top experts from Colorado State University are still maintaining their prediction of a slightly above-average season.

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround The US Navy has announced plans to ...

Microwave data from a trio of defense department satellites will continue flowing to NOAA to help inform sea ice research and ...

The SSMIS instruments are part of three weather satellites that are in low-Earth orbit and are maintained by NOAA in ...

The NOAA maintains various types of equipment and methods to analyze global weather and predict likely outcomes, while ...

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured this image of Hurricane Irma passing the eastern end of Cuba at about 8:00 am on Sept. 8, 2017.

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A NOAA weather satellite known as GOES-17 is prepared for launch in 2018. The satellite continuously measures weather conditions for an area that includes the West Coast of the United States.