These dynamics can cause hurricanes to meander ... the land creates a low-pressure area in which the cooler air over the ocean sinks, forming a high-pressure system. Overall, a combination ...

Hurricanes are among the most powerful and destructive natural disasters on Earth. But how do hurricanes form, and which ...

Hurricane Helene, which formed just four days earlier as a tropical depression, rapidly intensified over the Gulf of Mexico due to ocean water temperatures about two degrees Celsius higher than ...

As a hurricane approaches a coast, the churning winds force ocean water up onto land ... Six inches (15 cm) of fast-moving water is enough to knock over an adult, according to the hurricane ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

and NBC — aired a combined 89 segments or weathercasts that discussed Hurricane Idalia over 2 hours and 32 minutes, but only 2 of those segments mentioned climate change. Record warm ocean ...

With max winds of 190 mph, Hurricane Allen holds the title as the storm with the highest wind speeds in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm hit along the Mexico-US border in Texas, traveling west.

But right now, outside of hurricane season, Pawlenko is searching for something entirely different over the ocean — sea life. "I've seen all kinds of wonderful things: hundreds of whales ...

NOAA's hurricane hunters took a trip ... to spend some time collecting data on winter storms over the Atlantic as part of a project called "Ocean Winds." They were there this week for Storm ...

If they form over the Atlantic Ocean or the Eastern Pacific Ocean, they are called hurricanes. If they occur in the Far East, near places such as Japan, they are known as typhoons and if they ...

This happens over and over again until giant cumulonimbus ... an open area around which the rest of the storm rotates. As long as hurricanes have warm ocean water to feed on, they will continue ...