Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of NOAA from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
An early, unusually strong El Niño is generating hostile wind shear across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf, keeping the tropics quiet even as hurricane season enters its historically most active…
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center placed west and south Alabama under a Level 1 marginal risk for severe weather Tuesday, with isolated storms capable of 60 mph winds arriving alongside heat…
Volunteers are needed for the 39th Annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup on Sept. 19, part of the global International Coastal Cleanup protecting Gulf Coast waterways.
Alabama's State Climatologist says a strengthening, potentially record-setting El Niño could bring a wetter winter and a slightly better chance of snow to south Alabama.
Between 2009 and 2021, the Mississippi Sound and Portersville and Heron bays lost 210 acres of marsh — about 159 football fields. Scientists, landowners and boaters explain what is driving…
Baldwin County has grown an estimated 70% in 20 years, and its utilities have spent that time burying lines, adding smart meters and staging crews earlier. Emergency officials say restoration…
A NOAA research team has planted propagated corals in the Gulf of Mexico's deep-water mesophotic zone, working to repair habitat still damaged 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
NOAA Fisheries is taking public comment through Aug. 21, 2026 on a proposal to cut the Gulf Spanish mackerel catch limit from 11.3 million to 9.63 million pounds and shift…
Mobile Baykeeper has received a $56,013 NOAA Marine Debris Program grant to help remove litter from One Mile Creek, a waterway that flows into Three Mile Creek and the Mobile-Tensaw…
Colorado State University has again cut its 2026 Atlantic hurricane forecast, now calling for nine named storms and just one major hurricane, as a strengthening El Niño shears storms apart…