Formation Requires Warm Ocean Water Hurricanes are born over the tropical oceans, where the water temperature is a balmy 26°C ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It's not great news for the Gulf Coast and other tropical storm-prone regions: La Niña is associated with more hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean. But forecasters with the National Oceanic ...

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 ...

During El Nino, warmer Pacific water helps form thunderstorms over the ... of Atlantic hurricanes by reducing vertical wind shear across the Caribbean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean.