National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration – Worth Knowing
- • NOAA, U.S. Department of Energy and Private Partners Launch Project to Reduce the Cost of Energy, Including Wind Energy: There has not always been a need to know precisely how hard the wind blows 350 feet above Earth’s surface. Today, wind turbines occupy that zone of the atmosphere, generating electricity. So NOAA and several partners have launched a year-long effort to improve...
- • U.S. Warmer and Drier than Normal in June: June 2011 brought temperature and precipitation extremes across the United States. An oppressive heat wave, accompanied by intensifying drought conditions, shattered temperature records in the South and Southwest. Overall, the nation had its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record...
- • 2010 Tied For Warmest Year on Record: According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average. For the contiguous United States alone, the 2010 average annual temperature was above normal, resulting in the 23rd warmest year on record...
