Atmospheric

Putting to bed the notion that ozone production is just a hot summer day in the city phenomenon, a new study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that “health-threatening” levels have been found during the winter near the remote Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline natural gas formation in northwestern Wyoming. More alarmingly, data points to the problem being global.

Putting to bed the notion that ozone production is just a hot summer day in the city phenomenon, a new study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that “health-threatening” levels have been found during the winter near the remote Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline natural gas formation in northwestern Wyoming. More alarmingly, data points to the problem being global.

The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has stayed for 60 days the closure of the decision record in an administrative appeal filed by Broadwater Energy LLC and Broadwater Pipeline LLC, which have asked the agency to overturn New York regulators’ opposition to the construction of a proposed floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and associated pipeline to be located in the New York waters of Long Island Sound.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Thursday predicted that winter this year would be warmer than normal across the central part of the nation with dryer conditions to continue in the Southeast.

The Bush administration is increasing funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’s (NOAA) hurricane research and forecast improvements’ efforts by $13 million for fiscal year (FY) 2009, the agency said.

The marine fisheries division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has raised serious questions about the adequacy of the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) being developed by FERC on NorthernStar Natural Gas’s proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal.

Sticking to its earlier predictions, which are in line with a number of other forecasting firms, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday it still sees above-average temperatures this winter for most of the United States.

With the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week releasing a forecast calling for above-average temperatures across most of the country this winter, one might expect that natural gas and electricity demand will decrease, taking prices along for the ride.

Wrapping up the pleasantly weak 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially came to an end last Thursday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the seasonal activity was lower than everyone expected due to the rapid development of El Nino — a periodic warming of the ocean waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, which influences pressure and wind patterns across the tropical Atlantic.