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KCCI 8 News on MSN · 1h

NOAA will stop tracking costs of extreme weather disasters

NOAA's database documents weather-related disasters causing at least $1 billion in damage (adjusted for inflation) since 1980. During that time, the number of expensive extreme weather events has increased significantly. Last year, 27 billion-dollar disasters struck the U.S. and caused an estimated $183 billion in damage.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

NOAA will no longer track costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change under Trump

The move is also yet another of President Donald Trump’s efforts to remove references to climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the weather from the federal government’s lexicon and documents.

CNN on MSN · 4d

NOAA ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980

Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

12h

How ongoing federal cuts to NWS, NOAA could degrade the quality of Iowa weather forecasts

Iowa experts say that the future of weather forecasting research and the National Weather Service's operations are at risk ...

12h

Rip current kills Florida teen days before graduation. NOAA adding risk map for hurricane season

NOAA announced it will be launching a rip current risk map in 2025 for danger posed by storms, even when far from shore.

4h

Meet the Gulfstream IV: the aircraft NOAA uses to forecast hurricanes

NOAA's Gulfstream 4 jet collects data to improve hurricane forecasts with advanced tools like GPS dropsondes and Tail Doppler ...

4don MSN

NOAA ending its "billion-dollar disasters" database

NOAA announced that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of ...

As NOAA shutters its database of expensive weather-related disasters, who will fill the gap?

The insurance industry used the public database to estimate future costs, while local governments turned to it for lessons on ...

4d

NOAA’s Billion-Dollar Climate Disaster Database Is Going Dark

NOAA ends its climate disaster tracking database amid Trump-era cuts, limiting public access to vital data on billion-dollar ...

13hon MSN

What will summer be like in Arizona? What NOAA, AccuWeather, almanacs predict

Forecasters agree Arizona will be hot this summer. But what about monsoon season? Here's what Farmer's Alamanc, NOAA and ...

4don MSN

Millions of Americans Could Lose Access to Clean Water Over NOAA Cutbacks

NOAA's Great Lakes lab has lost 35 percent of its workforce since February due to a hiring freeze, forced retirements, and ...

4d

Oregon seal pup stabbed multiple times as NOAA seeking to track down person of interest

The NOAA is trying to track down a person of interest after a seal pup suffered "multiple stab wounds" in an attack at a ...

2dOpinion

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels

The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if ...

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