This season (June 1-Nov 30), forecasters predict 45% chance above-normal, a 35% chance near-normal, and only a 20% chance below-normal. ...

In an effort to help ready you for future storms, Sea Grant offers a number of #HurricanePrep tips and resources from NOAA, its other line offices (including the U.S. National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center) as well as partner organizations including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). ...

As one might expect, this social science project has much to do with the culture, language, and attitude of people making the profound and often emotional decision about whether or not to evacuate their home before a storm hits. ...

NYSG-funded researchers Charlie Flagg and fellow SBU SoMAS investigator Roger Flood's offer insights along with their aerial photograph series that documents the evolution of the breach at Old Inlet from shortly after its inception during Superstorm Sandy on October 29, 2012, to the latest photos taken June 16, 2013. Monitoring of the breach is important, as its evolution will affect the tidal dynamics and the ecosystem of the Long Island's eastern Great South Bay. ...

New York Sea Grant funded research to measure if the ecosystem could handle the additional sewage and increase its capacity to serve as a “nutrient sink,” or if the enhanced nutrient loads would shift the ecosystem to an alternative state that perpetuates additional organic matter loading. ...