Warmer temperatures, higher humidity, and less rain help lead to an earlier Lyme disease season, researchers have found. They have also identified several weather variables that can be used to predict the onset and peak of the next seasons.

California will likely experience more large fires in forested areas this century because of rising temperatures and changes in precipitation along with development patterns, new research finds. The blazes could increase some types of fire-generated air pollution by more than half.

The Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Weather Tool is a valuable weather reporting system specially designed to meet the needs of air emergency first responders. It runs as a desktop application on a computer that allows operations to overlay multiple weather conditions at low altitudes: ceiling height, visibility, winds, relative humidity, temperature, and radar images. All 3D data are provided at ground-level altitudes and can be sliced horizontally on 500 ft intervals up to 5000 ft., and can be animated in real time.

The perceived gender of a hurricane’s name is just one of many factors potentially shaping how someone reacts to a given storm, according to several scientists at NCAR who take a multifaceted approach to studying hurricane response.

What if all the energy needed by society existed just a mile or two above our heads? NCAR, the University of Delaware, and the energy firm Garrad Hassan have begun examining where the strongest winds are and how much electricity they may be able to generate.

It takes a sharp eye to find something positive in the wreckage of the worst swarm of U.S. tornadoes on record: the 1974 Jumbo Outbreak. Millions of Americans are safer in the air because of Fujita's subsequent analysis of microbursts and tools developed by NCAR and collaborators.

Three scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who served as authors of the assessment will be available for interviews after the report is released.