NOAA's National Weather Service HeadlinesLatest weather and climate headlines from NOAA's National Weather Service...NOAA Web Portal Makes the Search for Past Weather Data User-Friendly...- March 30, 2006 Finding climate information, such as past weather conditions and temperature and precipitation averages and extremes, can be easily achieved through NOWData (NOAA Online Weather Data) - a tab click away on the newly-standardized climate pages of the 122 local NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Offices.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2602.htm ...March 23rd is World Meteorological Day...- March 23, 2006 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), along with its 187 members, celebrates World Meteorological Day each year on March 23. The theme for this year is "Preventing and Mitigating Natural Disasters". The theme, according to WMO Secretary General Mr. Michel Jarraud, was chosen because 90 percent of all natural hazards are related to weather, climate, and water.http://www.nws.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nwsexit.pl?url=http://www.wmo.int/wmd/ ...NOAA Announces U.S. Spring Outlook...- March 16, 2006 NOAA, in partnership with the National Interagency Fire Center, announced that despite periodic precipitation, the Spring outlook supports the potential for a significant wildfire season in the Southwest and central and southern Plains.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2595.htm ...Rain Returns to Parched Phoenix...- March 13, 2006 Rain showers fell in Phoenix, AZ., this weekend for the first time since October 18, 2005. The previous record dry spell was 101 consecutive days (Sept. 23, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000). The rainfall will have little impact on the region's deep drought, which is forecast to persist through at least May.http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/psr/climate/records/dry.php |