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Early Heat Wave in the West; Fire Concerns in the Plains

An anomalously early heat wave will continue to intensify and expand across the West and Southwest as the week progresses. Numerous daily and potentially monthly record highs are expected to be broken. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions are expected today across the High Plains and southern Plains. Lake effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes will taper off today. Read More >

Contact Information:

International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC)

NOAA Inouye Regional Center

1845 Wasp Boulevard, Building 176

Honolulu, HI USA

 

E-mail: itic.tsunami@noaa.gov

Tel: +1 808 725 6050

Fax: +1 808 725 6055


The ITIC maintains an office in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico.  The ITIC Caribbean office (ITIC-CAR) support tsunami warning and mitigation activities in the Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Caribbean, working with the Caribbean Tsunami Information Center.
 

ITIC Staff


ITIC consists of the ITIC Director, Deputy Director, Staff Scientist, Technical Information Specialist for Tsunamis, Information Technology Specialist, and Administrative Assistant, who are provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service (NOAA NWS).  The ITIC is supported additionally by project contractors, and has hosted international interns.  Recent interns have been IOC Ocean Traineeships and from the University of Tokyo Ocean Alliance Program.

The ITIC Associate Director, which should be a non-US person, has been provided since 1998 by the Servicio Hidrográfico y Oeanográfico de la Armada (SHOA) de Chile.  The ITIC Associate Director is Head of SHOA's Oceanography Department, who is in charge of Chile's National Tsunami Warning Center.