Cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration affect research and sea monitoring partnerships between NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The NWS Phoenix AZ reported an air quality alert at 10:33 a.m. on Thursday in effect until Friday at midnight. The alert is for Imperial County Southwest, Chuckwalla Mountains, Imperial County Southeast,

NOAA faces funding cuts affecting 600 scientists agency-wide as San Diego experiences an atmospheric river, raising concerns about future weather preparedness.

A White House official said “an extensive process” was conducted before the NOAA layoffs to ensure “mission critical functions” weren’t compromised.

Bay Area weather experts and politicians are sounding the alarm and said cuts to the NWS and NOAA from DOGE are a disservice to the community.

Southern California welcomed a surge of moisture that forecasters say could be the first in a series of early March storms, including a potential atmospheric river.

In 2016, NOAA estimated the size of the eastern ... Last year, the numbers on the northward migration past Southern California peaked in early March. But the numbers have just started to pick ...

“When conditions are right, waters off the coast of California can experience large-scale toxic algal blooms that are capable of sickening hundreds of sea lions in a matter of weeks, causing them to wash ashore at an alarming rate – sometimes a dozen a day,” according to the Marine Mammal Care Center.