A meteorologist explains three essential components of NOAA hurricane data collection that forecasters everywhere rely on yet ...

Dropsonde data also helps computer models forecast the track and intensity of storms days into the future. Two NOAA Hurricane Hunter flight directors were laid off in February 2025, leaving only ...

We are now less than one month away from the start of hurricane season, and the hurricane hunter aircraft are getting ready ...

Capt. Nate Kahn, commanding officer of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the aircraft ...

Captain Nate Kahn, commanding officer of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is a few weeks away. Here are 6 things that NOAA provides the nation as the ominous storm ...

Reconnaissance, including NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft, drones, and ocean-deployed sail drones, are improving both real-time monitoring and forecast modeling. “All that aircraft reconnaissance ...

Short said the flight was especially meaningful because it happened on the 91 st birthday of his late father, who was a flight engineer on a hurricane hunter aircraft. Litteken said ...