As we head into winter, almost all of the buoys that have been bobbing in the Great Lakes during the warmer months have been retrieved and will stay out of the water until springtime. However, the ...

WASHINGTON — Weather buoys are an incredibly important resource for meteorologists. They can help reduce the loss of life and property and protect the ecosystem from natural and human-induced ...

Too many of the weather buoys floating in the waters off Alaska are out of service and the federal government should devote more resources to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last month redeployed an important weather buoy about 70 miles into the Pacific Ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River. The giant buoy is one of ...

Like many commercial fishermen, Kelsey Cutting relies on data from weather buoys at the mouth of the Columbia River to guide his decisions whether to set out for Dungeness crab. But as he’s learned, ...

Proposed budget cuts to NOAA could shut down a program operating 18 buoys that provide crucial real-time weather and ocean data off the coasts of North and South Carolina and Florida. Loss of the ...

“This particular buoy (46089) went adrift back in December of 2023,” said Craig Kohler of NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center. The center, which is part of the National Weather Service, runs a fleet of ...