On February 11-20, 2021, a historical winter event occurred across the state of Texas that set many records, including being the first billion-dollar weather disaster of that year.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, generating a deadly tsunami.
Learn about how and why the geomagnetic poles move, and access pole location data from 1590–2025.
January 2025 ranked as the fifth-warmest January in NOAA’s 177-year record, with a global surface temperature 2.02°F (1.12°C) higher than the 20th-century baseline.
The U.S. Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide information about typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States. Normals act both as a ruler to compare today’s weather and tomorrow’s forecast, and as a predictor of conditions in the near
The Global Forecast System (GFS) is a National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) weather forecast model that generates data for dozens of atmospheric and land-soil variables, including temperatures, winds, precipitation, soil moisture, and atmospheric ozone concentration. The system
The Department of Commerce certifies data maintained in the NCEI archive to meet the authentication requirements for records submitted as evidence in a court of law. This page details costs and procedures with accessing that data.
The World Magnetic Model (WMM) is the standard model for navigation, attitude, and heading referencing systems that use the geomagnetic field. The WMM is also used for civilian applications, including navigation and heading systems. A new version of the model is updated every five years to address
The Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd) is an integrated database of daily climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe. GHCNd is made up of daily climate records from numerous sources that have been integrated and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance
Construction, both private and public, was valued at $2.2 trillion in 2024 – all of it impacted by weather and climate. Extreme weather events such as flooding, high wind, and extreme temperatures can degrade building materials, threaten the safety of critical infrastructure, and cause significant
The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) in June 2025 was 71.2°F, 2.8°F above the 20th-century average, and ranked seventh warmest in the 131-year record.
Learn about the legacy of Dr. George Washington Carver, one of the prominent Black scientists of the early 20th century.
On this day in 1883, the volcano on the island of Krakatau violently erupted, setting off a chain of cataclysmic destruction.
The Global Historical Climatology Network monthly (GHCNm) dataset provides monthly climate summaries from thousands of weather stations around the world. The initial version was developed in the early 1990s, with subsequent iterations released in 1997, 2011, and 2018. The period of record for each