The January contiguous U.S. average temperature was 32.2°F, 2.1°F above the 20th century average, ranking as the 34th warmest January on record. The January precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. was 2.03 inches, 0.28 inch below the 20th century average, the 36th driest January on...
Every February 2, a crowd of thousands gathers at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to await a special forecast from a groundhog named Phil. If the 20-pound groundhog emerges and sees his shadow, the United States can expect six more weeks of winter weather according...
At the 2016 NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office Awards Ceremony held on January 21st, 2016, Dr. Young-Kwon Lim, an IMSG employee working under GESTAR partnership at GMAO was recognized for his outstanding work and received his award in the ‘’Scientific Achievement,”...
The January 22-24 blizzard, which dumped heavy snow from the Mid-Atlantic to southern New England has been rated as a Category 4 or “Crippling” winter storm on NOAA’s Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale, also known as NESIS. It is also among the most powerful winter storms,...
The November average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.75°F (0.97°C) above the 20th century average. This was the highest for November in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2013 by 0.27°F (0.15°C), and marking the seventh consecutive month a...
IMSG scientist Valerie Mikles is discussing her poster presentation “STAR ASSISTT: Facilitating JPSS Algorithm Change Process” at HALL E of the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
IMSG scientist Youlong Xia is answering questions related to his poster presentation “Basin-Scale Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in the NCEP Operational and Research NLDAS-2 Systems” at HALL E of the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
IMSG scientist Rahul Mahajan is presenting “Implementation Plans of Hybrid 4D EnVar for the NCEP GFS and Future Directions” from 9:00AM-9:15AM in room 345 of the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
IMSG scientist Lin Lin is presenting “ Uncertainty in Microwave Radiative Simulations Associated with Cloud Scattering Database Used in CRTM” from 9:15 AM- 9:30 AM in room 335/336 of the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
IMSG CEO Vance Hum and VP Le Jiang at NOAA booth in AMS annual meeting 2016 at the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...