What if the vehicles ahead of you could send weather data to a smart system, warning you of ice or fog just ahead?

The new system enables utility operators to constantly anticipate the amount of energy produced by wind farms across Xcel’s service area.

NCAR scientists have performed one of the most detailed simulations ever of a massive tornado outbreak. They simulated two waves of tornadic storms that occurred on April 27,2011 in Alabama, the deadliest U.S. tornado day since 1925.

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The inadvertent cloud-seeding effect occurs up to about 6 percent of the time at major airports.

The economic impacts of routine weather events can add up to 3.4% of the nation's GDP.

Prior to massive flooding early in 2011, long-term drought plagued the Australian state of Queensland . As part of a broad research program on cloud seeding, NCAR researchers have been steadily crunching data from a 2008–09 field project that looked into how to make the clouds drop more rain on the region.

New research focusing on the Houston area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea.