NOAA's National Weather Service HeadlinesLatest weather and climate headlines from NOAA's National Weather ServiceNeed Marine Forecasts Immediately Call Dial-A-Buoy.- June 24, 2004 Mariners can now hear the latest coastal and offshore weather observations via telephone through a service called Dial-A-Buoy. Dial-A-Buoy provides wind and wave measurements taken within the last hour at buoy and Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations located in the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of lines to the ground. Learn how to stay safe indoors.http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/indoors.htm Lightning Safety Awareness Week - June 20-26, 2004 - Outdoor Lightning Safety- June 23, 2004 Each year, about 400 children and adults in the U.S. are struck by lightning while working outside, at sports events, on the beach, mountain climbing, mowing the lawn, or during other outdoor activities. Learn how to stay safe.http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/outdoors.htm Lightning Safety Awareness Week - June 20-26, 2004 - Lightning Science- June 22, 2004 At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress somewhere on the Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! Scientists who study lightning have a better understanding today of the process that produces lightning, but there is still more to learn. U.S. lightning detection systems monitor an average of 25 million strokes of lightning from cloud to ground every year!http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science.htm Lightning Safety Awareness Week - June 20-26, 2004 - Lightning Overview- June 21, 2004 Don't be a victim. Seek shelter indoors when thunderstorms and lightning threaten! Summer is the peak season for one of the Nation's deadliest weather phenomena - lightning. In the U.S., an average of 67 people are killed each year by lightning. In 2003, there were 44 deaths. That's more than the annual number of people killed by tornadoes or hurricanes. Many more are struck but survive. Play it safe, find out more about lightning safety.http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/overview.htm Heat Kills!- June 18, 2004 Heat-related deaths outpace fatalities in several other severe weather categories. Based on a 10-year average from 1992-2001, excessive heat claimed 219 lives each year. By contrast, floods killed 88; tornadoes, 57; lightning, 52; and hurricanes, 15. Be aware of dangerous heat conditions by following NWS's Mean Heat Index.http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heat_index.shtml How Intense Will the Sun be Tomorrow- June 14, 2004 The NWS makes daily forecasts of Ultraviolet intensity for 52 metropolitan areas in a product called the UV Index. The UV Index is a next-day forecast of the amount of skin-damaging UV radiation expected to reach the Earth's surface at the time when the sun is highest in the sky (solar noon).http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/uv_index/index.html Floods and Flash Floods Are the Deadliest Severe Weather Event- June 4, 2004 Flash floods occur within a few minutes or hours of excessive rainfall, a dam or levee failure, or a sudden release of water held by an ice jam. Rapidly rising water can reach heights of 30 feet or more. Most flash floods are caused by slow-moving thunderstorms, or multiple thunderstorms which move over the same area one right after the other.http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/ffbro.htm |