Storm and surf forecasts in California will become less accurate this year when federal funding for a network of ocean buoys disappears in September.

The disappearance of No. 46089 compounded the earlier loss of No. 46029, which is the closest of three NOAA weather buoys used to predict weather at the Columbia’s mouth.

According to the NOAA website, these buoys can detect tsunamis as small as 1 centimeter, providing crucial data for early warning systems. Graphic showing the entire DART® II system used for ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Severe cuts proposed at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would shutter a Great Lakes data network which aids fishermen and helps forecast threats ...

NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by weather forecasters nationwide—and freely available to anyone. Read from CU ...

The measure, Senate Joint Resolution 12, calls for Congress to “take actions necessary to restore the full functionality,” of the NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center meteorological sites in ...

Too many of the weather buoys floating in the waters off Alaska are out of service and the federal government should devote more resources to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in ...

The disappearance of No. 46089 compounded the earlier loss of No. 46029, which is the closest of three NOAA weather buoys used to predict weather at the Columbia’s mouth.

The disappearance of No. 46089 compounded the earlier loss of No. 46029, which is the closest of three NOAA weather buoys used to predict weather at the Columbia’s mouth.