Biden-Harris Administration invests $10 million to improve risk communication during weather emergencies through Investing in America agenda

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Funding will support efforts to evaluate how the public reacts to NOAA services during flood events The funding will be spent over the course of five years and will help to establish NOAA’s Societal Data Insights Initiative within NOAA Research’s Weather Program Office. This initiative will focus on ensuring that communities across the country understand and…

Forecasters in room looking at weather radar on multiple monitors

The 2023 Spring Experiment

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At the height of the spring severe weather season, the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed hosts multiple real-time, forecasting, and warning experiments to evaluate the operational utility of new science, technology, and products. NOAA NSSL, the NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center  and the NOAA NWS Norman Forecast Office lead the effort. The Spring Experiments are a unique opportunity…

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Researchers and Forecasters Team Up to Improve Forecasts in the New Hurricane and Ocean Testbed

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After a year and a half of concerted effort between NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and other NOAA offices, including the Weather Program Office, the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed (HOT) has been successfully re-named (from the Joint Hurricane Testbed) and re-launched in the newly designed William M. Lapenta Laboratory, named in…