Extreme events like tropical cyclones have immediate impacts, but also long-term implications for societies. A new study published in the journal Nature Communications now finds: Accounting for…
Cities and towns darkened after a cyclone unleashed torrential flooding along the country’s coast. On September 10, 2023, a powerful storm brought heavy rain to…
Cyclone Mocha, a powerful storm, wreaked havoc across the Bay of Bengal in May 2023. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission provided vital satellite imagery, aiding disaster…
Tropical Cyclone Freddy, an unusually long-lived storm, wandered in the Indian Ocean for more than a month. For more than a month, Tropical Cyclone Freddy…
The tropical cyclone made landfall on February 21, 2023, after traveling for more than two weeks across the Indian Ocean. After traveling for 15 days…
Where does that energy come from? Landfalling North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) inflict significant economic damage to human civilization. Between 1900 and 2017, 197 North…
Cosmic rays used to track and visualize tropical cyclones open the eye of the storm. For the first time, high-energy muon particles generated in the…
On August 30, Typhoon Hinnamnor became the first category 5 cyclone on Earth in 2022. For most of 2022, the world’s ocean basins have been…
A new study has revealed super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people…
October 10 – 25, 2021 One of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever to strike the Pacific Northwest drew an equally historic amount of moisture…
Tropical cyclones are scarce in the Arabian Sea, but unusually warm ocean temperatures helped fuel this storm. An unusually powerful tropical cyclone named Tauktae struck…
The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. On April 11, 2021, a category three storm…
The South Pacific island nation of Fiji is bracing for the arrival of severe tropical cyclone Yasa. Citizens were told to evacuate low-lying areas in…
On November 22, 2020, Cyclone Gati became the strongest storm to hit Somalia since satellite records began five decades ago. Gati made landfall with maximum…
Atmospheric scientists from MIT have developed a simple model that may predict cyclone activity on other planets. For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious…
Hurricane Sandy has been downgraded to a post-cyclone storm, and most of the devastating effects of the hurricane are past, but people in 22 states…