NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center today announced that projected climate conditions point to a near normal or above normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this year. Hurricane season officially begins in the Atlantic on June 1.

NOAA hurricane experts will travel aboard a NOAA WP-3 Orion turboprop Hurricane Hunter aircraft in a five-day, five-city tour of the Gulf Coast beginning April 14 to raise awareness of the hurricanes that can and have threatened the region.

NOAA has deployed the final tsunami detection buoys in the South Pacific, completing the buoy network and bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system

Preliminary severe weather reports through Tuesday night indicate one tornado in Alabama. Nearly two hundred reports of damaging thunderstorm winds were received from Georgia and eastern Tennessee, across the Carolinas and Virginia, into Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Preliminary severe weather reports received by the National Weather Service list one tornado in Mississippi, over twenty reports of damaging thunderstorms winds, and several reports of large hail.

A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased in the U.S. over time due to greater population, infrastructure, and wealth on the U.S.

Over 300 reports of tornadoes, wind damage, and large hail were received on Tuesday. The severe weather stretched from eastern Texas into Ohio.

A warming global ocean, influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms, could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists.

The Storm Prediction Center is forecasting the development of a few strong, long-track tornadoes over parts of the Mid South later today and tonight. There is also a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms from parts of eastern Oklahoma/southern Missouri east-northeastward into the Ohio River Valley and across the lower Mississippi River Valley.