When a hurricane is in the forecast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deploys its famed Hurricane Hunter team to gather data directly from the storm. The team uses specialized aircraft to fly into the hurricane and collect information about its intensity,

On Wednesday, some of the nation’s top hurricane scientists joined House Democrats for a virtual press conference to sound the alarm on proposed budget cuts that would severely degrade hurricane monitoring and forecasting.

particularly at night and during periods when hurricane hunter aircraft are not flying in the storm. According to a former NOAA employee familiar with the matter, the Defense Department’s actions caught the nation’s weather and oceans agency off guard ...

A Hurricane Hunter aircraft is seen in a hangar at a NOAA center in Florida. New research shows the flights collect weather data that improves hurricane forecasts.

A local meteorologist recalled how good forecasts during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 saved lives. Back then, federal forecasts gave 72 hours of warning with a 300-mile range of probable impact. Since then, with more data, forecasters routinely give five days of warning and a narrower 200-mile range of impact.

Ahead of an appropriations committee meeting, several scientists are raising a red flag about a NOAA proposal to shutter all its weather and climate research labs.

NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s proposed budget cuts jeopardize the data-gathering efforts and other ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act also includes $200 million in cuts to NOAA’s weather forecasting and public alert programs.