Heat related illnesses and death are largely preventable with proper planning, education, and action. Heat.gov serves as the premier source of heat and health information for the nation to reduce the health, economic, and infrastructural impacts of extreme heat. Heat.gov is the web portal for the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS). This website includes data, forecasts, safety information, and much more.

Watch. Explore. Discover. View the beauty and mystery of the ocean realm captured on video around the globe. Videos are organized into collections to help educators.

SOS Explorer® (SOSx) is a flat screen version of the widely popular Science On a Sphere® (SOS). The revolutionary software takes SOS datasets, usually only seen on a 6-foot sphere in large museum spaces, and makes them more accessible. The visualizations show information provided by satellites, ground observations and computer models.

NOAA has developed a national energy simulator to determine the role that different energy sources could play in coming decades. The energy simulator uses coal, nuclear, wind, solar, etc., over the continental US, and includes a potential national High-Voltage-Direct-Current transmission network, allowing power to be shared over the domain. The simulator identifies cost-minimized geographic configurations that could continuously and reliably supply electricity over all parts of the country. This simulation shows that there is a potential path to transforming the global energy system to much lower carbon emissions by the 2030s without major economic harm.

During a typical Atlantic hurricane season NOAA aircraft collect crucial observations to improve the understanding and prediction of these massive cyclonic storms. NOAA scientists fly into the heart of powerful storms to try and answer hypotheses in hurricane research, and support real-time weather prediction models, providing up-to-date information on storms threatening to make landfall. Each mission uses instruments that collect atmospheric and oceanic data that are largely unobserved with existing ground, ocean and satellite based technologies.

Hurricanes are one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the world. Our ability to predict where storms will make landfall has improved steadily, but it is still a challenge to predict a storm's intensity or strength. Robots patrolling our coastal oceans are providing new opportunities to improve hurricane intensity forecasts and inform better response plans. In this presentation you’ll learn how these heroic robots swim and survive into the eye of the storm to keep us safe.

In the Investigating El Niño & Impacts of Changing Ocean Temperatures lesson, students explore ocean temperature data visually with NOAA View Global Data Explorer. They consider impacts of changing ocean conditions on marine sanctuaries and wildlife, as well as global impacts of El Niño and La Niña and other changes that impact the ocean and Earth’s climatic and living systems that depend on it.

Derek "Deke" Arndt, Chief of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center Climate Monitoring Branch presents of how the Earth's climate system works. He focuses on how the ocean and the atmosphere affect each other, and how a warming world may affect this relationship. In addition to detailing the interconnectedness of the major components of the climate system, Deke's presentation includes insights into recently observed trends and evidence of change.

97.4% of scientists agree our atmosphere is warming and that humans are the cause of it. The question arises as to the magnitude of the warming and the changes we’ll see as a result. This presentation addresses the predicted and observed impacts of a warming climate to water resources globally, and regionally. In the US we can expect to see a change in precipitation patterns affecting vast majorities of the population. This includes increased storm and rainfall intensity, more extensive and prolonged droughts. With these changes in our future, how will we adapt? In fact, can we change the rate and magnitude of our warming? What can one person do to alter our future?

To better understand the ocean, weather, and climate connection, join NOAA Climatologist Tom Di Liberto as he examines the “wild weather.” Dr. Gerry Bell of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center also provides insight into how meteorologists and climatologists use technology and human skill to create reliable weather and climate forecasts.