As it gets later in the summer, the questions about hurricanes increase. Rightfully so, because that means it is getting closer to peak hurricane season. This time, we have a great hurricane question ...

American scientific and regulatory agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft penetrated the eye of Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday, and captured the ...

What's it like to fly in the eye of a Category 5 hurricane? "Bumpy," said Josh Wadler, an assistant professor of meteorology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He knows from ...

HOUSTON — Hurricane hunters got a look inside the eye of Hurricane Erin Saturday as it was strengthening and shared the images on social media. Erin peaked as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained ...

No two tropical storms or hurricanes are exactly alike, but every system has the same basic structure that meteorologists analyze when creating life-saving forecasts for tropical systems. Some ...

Tropical activity remains quiet in the Atlantic basin, although there have already been three named storms in the eastern Pacific. The National Hurricane Center is watching three tropical waves, ...

Advances in technology have allowed for better hurricane forecasting. MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Sept. 9, 2008— -- With a hurricane approaching, most people would want to board a plane to fly ...

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the "Hurricane Hunters," encountered heavier than normal turbulence while flying into the eye of Hurricane Melissa on ...

Hurricane forecasters were eyeing two developing tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean Aug. 10 – one of which could pose an eventual risk to the United States – while Tropical Storms Henriette and ...

More than three weeks into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is watching a system with a slim chance of developing into the season's first storm. Showers and ...

Andrew Hazelton helped make hurricane models more accurate. He was one of hundreds of NOAA workers to lose their jobs—and weather forecasts are about to get worse. Last September, as Hurricane Helene ...