A central Caribbean tropical wave is near 76W from southeast of Jamaica southward to over northwestern Colombia, and moving west at 10 to 15 kt. Scattered heavy showers and isolated strong ...

Novices like Ah Xing are at the bottom rung of the ladder. Few new recruits make it through an entire voyage, especially on ...

As we mark World Ocean Day today, 8th June, many will be celebrating the beauty and bounty of our seas. But behind the ...

An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and ...

Hi, I`m Lowell, a 69-year-old rookie sailor and a never-too-later! I had an aspiration to sail across an ocean solo before I die. I am a Canadian living in Japan, and in 2019, I purchased Wahine ...

Video: satellite loop and detected lightning on Wednesday morning, June 4 over New Caledonia. ... causing the moist Pacific Ocean winds to precipitate intensely. Image: DTN MetStorm QPE showing ...

May 28 - The ocean is our lifeblood. It is our provider, the foundation of our cultures, and our home. But it is changing before our eyes. Growing up in Samoa, an island nation ringed by a vast ...

The tropics have awakened from their winter slumber, and Tropical Storm Alvin may soon be upon us. In the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central America, meteorologists say the atmosphere is becoming ...

Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean features like waves and eddies. A recent NASA-led analysis using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite found that ...

Firefly’s 95-foot-tall (29-meter) expendable rocket is designed to provide low-cost rides for mid-sized satellites, carrying payloads up to 2,866 pounds (1,300 kilograms) for the price of $15 ...

When 2024 began, the Earth was already in the midst of a natural climate pattern called El Niño, when hot conditions in the Pacific Ocean tend to send global average temperatures soaring ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Skip to main content.