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May 06, 2025
Community Forecast Model Adds Fire and Smoke Prediction Capabilities
A new upgrade of the Unified Forecast System’s (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, which was released by the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) in April 2025, contains significant contributions from the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory (GSL). The update (Version 3.0) adds new capabilities for modeling wildfire smoke and dust for we...
April 25, 2025
A new hazardous weather warning system proves its mettle during March tornado outbreaks
From March 13 to 16, 2025, a historic and deadly tornado outbreak swept across the central United States, unleashing severe weather from the Gulf Coast to central Illinois. The storm system produced more than 115 confirmed tornadoes, and resulted in $6.25 billion in damage and 23 fatalities, making it one of the largest on record for the month o...
April 16, 2025
GSL Releases Update to DESI Weather Analysis Tool
NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) has released a significant update to the Dynamic Ensemble-based Scenarios for Impact-Based Decision Support (DESI). The latest release, Version 3.3, launched in February 2025 and incorporates a host of improvements aimed at enhancing usability, visualization, and its suite of critical environmental data.Rec...
February 25, 2025
GSL/PSL partner with AI startup to make observational data AI-ready
NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory and Global Systems Laboratory and the artificial intelligence startup Brightband have entered into a two-year Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) that will optimize a vast NOAA-managed archive of observational weather data for training artificial intelligence (AI)-based weather forecasting a...
January 08, 2025
The person underneath the umbrella
Weather touches every part of our lives–our flights, utility bills, commutes, work days, soccer games, and even our moods. For over a half century, NOAA has been studying the skies to better understand how our atmosphere works. Our efforts have led to rapid advances in weather detection and atmospheric modeling to ultimately deliver the best for...
November 26, 2024
Hurricane Helene tests Hazard Services
Several NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Offices (NWS WFOs), including Charleston, SC (CHS) have been testing the latest version of Hazard Services for convective operations. The WFO issued 39 tornado warnings, 28 special marine warnings for waterspouts, and dozens of followup statements during Hurricane Helene. “We were really pleased wit...