The first two satellites in NASA's new hurricane-hunting constellation have taken to the skies.The two cubesats, the founding members of the agency's TROPICS network, launched today (May 7) atop a...
The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's...
More than three million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the U.S. in the past year because of hurricanes, floods and other disasters, according to the Census BureauResidents...
More than 1.3% of the adult population in the US was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations,...
Like big-wave surfers or daring meteorologists, shearwaters in the Sea of Japan deliberately head toward powerful (and dangerous) storms. When hurricanes strike, most birds either evacuate or take shelter. After...
A flag flies at a mobile home park on San Carlos Island in the Fort Myers area days after Hurricane Ian hit Florida in late September 2022. (Octavio Jones/for The...
Bomb cyclones, intense winter storms with high winds, heavy blizzards and sub-zero temperatures, are basically winter hurricanes that are created through a process known as bombogenesis.Bombogenesis is a weather term that combines "bomb"...
With a direct hit by Category 4 Hurricane Ian in September and two unusual late-season storms, the state of Florida saw an active hurricane season this year. Severe beach erosion...
Nicole made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the east coast of the Florida peninsula, just south of Vero Beach, packing maximum sustained winds of 75 mph about 3am...
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