15 U.S.C. § 9710 — Identification and support of consistent, Federal set of forward-looking, long-term meteorological information

(a) In this section—

(1) “Extreme weather” includes observed or expected severe or unseasonable atmospheric conditions, such as drought, heavy precipitation, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms including derechos, large hail, extreme heat or cold, flooding, sustained temperatures or precipitation far from historical averages, and any other event the Administrator^* determines qualifies.

(2) “Long-term” has the meaning the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, consulting the Administrator, considers appropriate for this section.

(3) “Other environmental trends” means wildfires, coastal and inland flooding, land subsidence, rising sea levels, and other challenges involving environmental systems changing over time that the Administrator determines qualify as challenges other than extreme weather.

(b) The Administrator must identify, and support research that enables, a consistent Federal set of forward-looking, long-term meteorological information. It must model future extreme weather events and other environmental trends, include projections and current observations, and include mesoscale information when the Administrator considers that appropriate.