As Hurricane Erin skirts the US, officials should think thrice about cutting NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

NOAA previously warned of escalating threats to the Next Generation Weather Radar network, a nationwide system of more than 160 radars used to monitor severe weather.

In 2024, NOAA preliminarily confirmed 1,796, the second-highest number on record since the agency started tracking them 75 years ago. In the first seven months of 2025, NOAA has already received ...