The Rapid City Flash Flood
Image: Aftermath of the flash flood of June 9-10, 1972, Rapid City, South Dakota. Photo: NOAA Rapid City, South Dakota was a medium-sized city of... Read More
Catastrophic Floods Strike New York and New Jersey
Image: Long Island Expressway in New York City shut down due to flash flooding from Post-Tropical Storm Ida’s landfall. Photo: Tommy Gao via Wikimedia Commons... Read More
Moon Wobble Means Flood Trouble
Photo: High tide sunny day flooding in Miami, Florida. (Photo credit: B137, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Many news outlets are reporting on a... Read More
The Mighty Gulf Stream Slows Down
Image: Graphic visualization map of Gulf Stream seen through sea surface temperature created by NOAA NESDIS. The mighty Gulf Stream is an invisible force that... Read More
Flood Protection for Hospitals
Photo: Rio Grande City, Texas, July 26, 2007 — FEMA Public Assistance Specialists Sheila Luster and and William Ciarelli inspect the Starr County Memorial Hospital... Read More
2020 Hurricane Season Smashes Records
GRAPHIC: The list of 30 named storms that had occurred during the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season as of November 24, 2020. The 2020 season surpassed... Read More
Eta Floods Florida After Very Wet ‘Dry Season’
Photo: Satellite imagery of Hurricane Eta. It was upgraded to a major hurricane by the National Hurricane Center on Monday, November 2, 2020. It was... Read More
Storm Surge 101
Click graphic above to enlarge: Storm surge is an abnormal rise of water generated by a storm, over and above the predicted astronomical tides. Storm... Read More
2020 Hurricane Season Poised to Break Records
PHOTO: A visible NOAA GOES-16 satellite image of Hurricane Isaias as it approached the U.S. East Coast at 7:46 p.m. ET, August 3, 2020. (NOAA)... Read More
Flooding Disaster in Michigan
Photo: These natural-color images show flooding across Midland County as observed by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. The pair shows the Tittabawassee... Read More