When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...

A forecaster monitors incoming data for Hurricane Irma in 2017 at the National Hurricane Center, part of the NOAA. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images All of that information goes into ...

A big data project launched by the U.S. Commerce Department brings together major cloud analytics vendors and the Open Cloud Consortium to develop infrastructure needed to access the more than 20 ...

Elizabeth Neus is the former managing editor of FedTech and the former producer of FedTech's award-winning Feds in the Field video series. The Washington Nationals are her team; 80s Brit pop is her ...

When you think of forecasts, the first thing that comes to mind might be the weather. People have been forecasting the weather since time immortal, using everything from observing nature to oracles ...

NOAA satellites show smoke plumes from fires burning across South America on Aug. 7, 2020, from the Amazon rainforest to the central and southern lowland regions. Credit: NOAA Article was updated Oct.