In this episode of “Kristen’s Classroom”, Meteorologist Kristen Currie talks about commonly-used words and phrases heard during hurricane season.

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

June 1 is the first day of hurricane season, but over at the Aircraft Operation Center in Lakeland, NOAA's Hurricane Hunters are prepared year-round.

His team had bullied into Hurricane Helene’s eye when he noticed on radar that the storm looked like it was dripping stalactites. Or growing teeth.

One thing that struck Johnson was the nearly year-round use of the hurricane hunters. Number of Hurricane Hunter missions, winter flights skyrocket. NOAA began flying winter missions into atmospheric ...

NOAA hurricane hunter planes, crucial for gathering storm data, have been grounded during recent hurricanes due to maintenance and staffing issues. A government audit reveals a concerning increase ...

With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting another active hurricane season, the agency’s Hurricane Hunters will continue to ... data in areas of the hurricane like the ...

Hurricane hunters will typically fly through the eyewall of the hurricane multiple times, dropping weather instruments called dropsondes to measure temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction ...

A 1989 flight through Hurricane Hugo tops the list for stomach-churning turbulence experienced by scientists, pilots, and crew aboard aircraft designed to fly through storms. Close Search for: Search ...