...upcoming week. Crop conditions are slightly dry but not in dangerous territory, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.There have been some positive effects from the dry weather. Dry conditions meant brighter foliage...

...Thousands of motorists were stranded on the interstates after the storm struck.A May 1973 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the storm resulted in $5 to 50 million in property damage, including snow removal and rescue...

...first-aid kit and a flashlight with extra batteries, just 29 percent have a radio tuned to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather service or have a plan for their family to meet up after an emergency. Fewer than half have...

...settled over the continental United States contributed to the hottest first six months of a year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. Records were broken from coast to coast ? 104 degrees in Washington and hotter in...

...week and came during a year that has seen above-normal temperatures every month. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, the next three are likely to follow the same trend."Looking at...

SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - With much of the Eastern Seaboard in the path of a rare behemoth storm, governors in the nation's most densely populated corridor declared states of emergency Saturday.

NEW YORK - From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns Sunday buttoned up against the onslaught of a superstorm that could endanger 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, with forecasters warning that the New York area could get the worst of it - an 11-foot wall of water.

...worsen it and hold it in place for days.Louis Uccellini, environmental prediction chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Associated Press that given Sandy's due east-to-west track into New Jersey, that...

NEW YORK - The official start of summer brought temperatures in the high 90s to the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday, setting records in some spots and getting awfully close in others, with people wilting at graduation ceremonies, students trying to learn in sweltering classrooms and authorities warning folks to check on elderly neighbors.

...bio-acoustics, nutrition and temperature effects and other criteria critical to the survival of the species, said Brandon Southall, former director of the ocean acoustics program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.