How do scientists get data from the inside of a storm? NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters fly straight into them. The administration’s ...

High above Earth's surface, GOES-18 and GOES-19 are the current pair of operational geostationary satellites monitoring the Western Hemisphere, orbiting in the GOES West and GOES East positions, ...

The Pentagon has reversed course and will continue to provide satellite weather data that hurricane forecasters deem essential, at least through September 2026. Previously, the Navy had planned to cut ...

Hurricane Idalia was the only U.S. landfalling hurricane in 2023 and a rare major hurricane to hit Florida during a strong El Niño year. El Niño typically reduces Atlantic hurricane activity by ...

The U.S. Department of Defense will now continue sharing key data collected by three weather satellites that help forecasters track hurricanes. Meteorologists and scientists had warned of risks to ...

Before tropical cyclones can significantly strengthen, they generally must first become vertically aligned, with their rotating centers stacked through the atmosphere. New research using nearly three ...

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Department of ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

It's not a schlocky TV movie or teams in a hockey game. Sharks vs. hurricanes is real science. Researchers are looking at how sharks can help gather ocean data for improved hurricane predictions by ...

Slurping deeply warmed Gulf water and exploiting a pause in storm-shredding wind shear, Hurricane Idalia unleashed a brutal ascension to a Category 4 cyclone less than 100 miles from Tallahassee. It ...