January was both dry and colder than normal in Portland, leading to questions like whether or not February is trending the ...

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

Back in October, Maine’s fishing future received a significant boost when U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, ...

The whale protection authority is widely shared. NOAA’s authority to protect all whales is under the Marine Mammal Protection ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

Central Maine Power and Versant Power encourage customers who are struggling to pay bills to call to enroll in payment plan ...

The effects of a coronal mass ejection—a bubble of plasma that bursts from the sun’s surface—will likely impact Earth’s ...

Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

NOAA said fewer than 360 North Atlantic right whales remain in the world. But critics of the proposal said right whales, while seen regularly in Cape Cod Bay and the Gulf of Maine, rarely find ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Maine lobstermen are "off the hook" when ... “We don’t have to listen to you. You sold out to NOAA and Canada. Why do we have to listen to you?” a man said during the ...

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina ...

Establishes a new State Resilience Office within the Maine Office of Community Affairs (MOCA), funded through a five-year federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ...