NOAA's National Weather Service HeadlinesLatest weather and climate headlines from NOAA's National Weather ServiceTravel Plans for the Holidays- December 24, 2003 See where severe weather is expected next. The National Weather Service issues watches, warnings, and advisories for severe weather across the U.S. that is updated every five minutes.http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/ NOAA Issues USA Winter Weather Update- December 22, 2003 The Winter Solstice begins on Monday, December 22, but if you ask many people living in the U.S. they might tell you winter is already here! With this year poised to being one of the wettest years on record in many states east of the Mississippi, people are asking, "What will the rest of the winter bring"http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2142.htm The National Weather Service and Aviation: Working Together Since the First Flight- December 5, 2003 The Wright Brothers relied on information from the Weather Bureau Office in Kitty Hawk, NC, to plan and successfully execute their first flight back in 1903. The U.S. Weather Bureau issued its first aviation weather forecast in December 1918, for the Aerial Mail Service route from New York to Chicago. Read more about Congress passing the Air Commerce Act in 1926 and how today's NWS issues almost 2,500 aviation weather forecasts for 537 airports around the Nation every day helping mitigate air..http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/NWSCentennialFlight.html Tropical Storm Odette - The 15th Named Storm of the Year - Forms in the Caribbean Sea- December 4, 2003 NOAA satellite data indicate that the tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea strengthened and is now Tropical Storm Odette, the 15th named storm of the year and the first storm to form in the Caribbean sea in December. At 4 p.m. GMT, the center of tropical storm Odette was GMTimated near latitude 14.0 north, longitude 75.6 west or about 280 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, according to the NOAA National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2133.htm NOAA Reports Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season- December 2, 2003 With the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season having officially ended Nov. 30, NOAA hurricane specialists said the above-normal 2003 Atlantic hurricane season produced 14 tropical storms, of which 7 became hurricanes and 3 became major hurricanes (Fabian, Isabel and Kate). Six of the named systems affected the United States, bringing high wind, storm surge or rain.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2131.htm |