Two Colorado companies are working together on the first major upgrade to the U.S. government’s weather observation instruments since the 1980s – and that means the forecast on your phone might get more accurate in the years ahead. “It’s pretty much been black and white images of clouds since the 1970s,” said Greg Mandt, National…
Hurricane Matthew: NASA reports limited initial damage to Kennedy Space Center
NASA is reporting limited initial damage to Kennedy Space Center from Hurricane Matthew, which brushed Cape Canaveral early Friday. In a statement at 9:45 a.m. ET, the agency said that the hurricane had passed offshore from Cape Canaveral and was north of Kennedy Space Center. At 8:45 a.m ET NASA had reported that Matthew was…
NASA Researchers Improve Hazardous Weather Forecasts
Forecasts play key roles in many people’s lives, from planning picnics at the park, to cancelling flights and avoiding weather-related tragedies. Because weather can be a life-or-death matter, researchers work hard to develop new technology and ways to provide earlier and more accurate forecasts. Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,…
UAH teams for severe weather research
UAH, with its NASA and NOAA partners, is at “the epicenter” of research into techniques that will use data from a new generation of weather satellites to predict severe weather, with three new projects funded by NASA. All three extend or expand lines of ongoing NOAA research in the UAH’s Atmospheric Science Department and the…
NOAA’s GOES-R Arrives at NASA Kennedy for Launch Processing
NOAA’s GOES-R satellite arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Littleton, Colorado, on Aug. 22 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo jet. After its arrival, the GOES-R spacecraft was pulled from its shipping container, and has since undergone additional testing and preparation for encapsulation on top…
NASA satellites show Alabama’s recovery from tornadoes of April 27, 2011
NASA released a new interactive web viewer this week that shows how Alabama’s natural landscape is recovering from the April 27, 2011 tornadoes. It’s built from Landsat satellite images taken of exactly the same spots over five years. “You can still see signs of damage,” researcher Jordan Bell said Wednesday, “but the landscape is healing.…