Up to half a billion birds are migrating southward each night. Researchers can use weather radars to track them.

WASHINGTON - Proposed budget cuts to NOAA threaten to slash research funding and stall technological advancements - potentially creating new obstacles in the effort to deploy next-generation radar ...

Rainfall will be hit-or-miss, ranging from a few tenths of an inch to as much as 2 inches where the heaviest downpours develop.

A hailstone hurdles towards its destruction. This footage was captured by a special rig built by Sean Waugh, a research scientist with NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (Credit: Sean Waugh) ...