PMEL in the News
Starting off 2017 with an actual Seattle freeze
It will be a cold start to 2017 in the Seattle area. Forecasters say that as the ball drops New Year's Eve, a cold front starts moving into the northwest from Canada. Washington state's climatologist, Nick Bond, is monitoring the weather pattern.
The Arctic is ‘behaving so bizarrely,’ and these scientists think they know why
Last month, temperatures in the high Arctic spiked dramatically, some 36 degrees Fahrenheit above normal — a move that corresponded with record low levels of Arctic sea ice during a time of year when this ice is supposed to be expanding during the freezing polar night.
Unexplored Ocean Depths Bustling with Life, Despite Extreme Conditions
A team of leading geologists, chemists, and biologists aboard research vessel Falkor have just finished surveying the largely unexplored Mariana Back-Arc for life at depths greater than 13,000 feet. Dr. David Butterfield, JISAO, University of Washington, and Dr. William Chadwick, NOAA-PMEL and Oregon State University, led the group to the Back-Arc
Underwater Volcano Footage Offers Rare Glimpse Of Submarine Eruption
The eruption of land-based volcanoes may be frequent. However, the same with a submarine volcano looks unique. More so about Axial Seamount — the active undersea volcano in the Northeast Pacific. In the latest eruption in April 2015, it triggered an average 200,000 earthquakes 300 miles off the coast of Oregon.
Washington’s winter outlook turns colder, wetter
A new federal forecast says the odds now favor a cold and wet winter throughout Washington, a change from previous outlooks. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center on Thursday released its U.S. forecast for January, February and March.