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Darren McKinney, the field operations director of lowernine.org, takes a break during a shift repairing a neighbor’s home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward on 20…

This season’s first hurricane – and the first of the Trump administration’s new era of meteorological austerity – has been making its closest pass to the…

When hurricane season is in full swing, the news can be difficult to parse. What’s the difference between a hurricane and a tropical cyclone, after all,…

If you’ve ever taken even a cursory glance at a hurricane forecast, you’ve seen some version of the “cone of uncertainty.” It sounds like some other-dimensional…

Hurricane Erin’s arrival is being felt all along the east coast, where higher tides and powerful surf have triggered expanded warnings for flooding and tropical storm…

A tropical storm sped up to become Hurricane Erin mid-morning on Friday, as it approached Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, bringing heavy rains that could…

Hurricane Forecasters Keep Crucial Satellite Data Online after Threatened CutsMicrowave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken…

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On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely complex three-dimensional structure. Being able to peer past the tops of…

Daring Hurricane Hunter Flights Make Forecasts More Accurate. But They Could Face CutsNOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President…