Brace for an Active 2020 Hurricane Season
Less than two months into hurricane season, the Atlantic basin has already produced six named storms, delivering some of the earliest activity in the past…
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Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger According to Analysis of Long-Term Satellite Imagery
In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. That is according to a new study by…
Hurricanes Have Become More Destructive for USA – Climatic Increase in Frequency of Worst Storms
A new study by researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen and Jens Hesselbjerg shows that hurricanes have become…
NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Aids Hurricane Forecasts
Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane’s wind speed – detecting whether it will make landfall…
Study Reveals How Hurricanes Affect Deep-Sea Ecosystems, Carbon Cycle
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) study reveals the effects of Hurricane Nicole on deep-sea ecosystems and the carbon cycle. In early October 2016, a tropical storm…
Mini Satellite’s Incredible Inside View of Hurricane Dorian
A new view of Hurricane Dorian shows the layers of the storm, as seen by an experimental NASA weather satellite that’s the size of a…
Dramatic Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station [Video]
Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views at 10:37 a.m. EDT on September 3, 2019, of Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude as…
NASA Satellite Spots Major Hurricane Juliette’s Emerging Eye
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and provided an image of Hurricane Juliette as its eye began to emerge. Juliette has grown…
Hurricane Dorian’s Eye Seen from the International Space Station
NASA is keeping an eye on Hurricane Dorian, which has battered the Bahamas and now threatens Florida and much of the southeastern coast of the…
NASA Estimates Hurricane Dorian’s Rain Using Data From a Fleet of Satellites
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 3, Hurricane Dorian had been stationary over the island of Grand Bahama for 18 hours, most of the…
Multiple Views of Hurricane Dorian from Different NASA Satellites
Several instruments and spacecraft from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have eyes on Hurricane Dorian, capturing different types of data from the storm….
NASA Satellite Captures 360-View of Hurricane Maria
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3D view of the 2017 storm. At…
NASA Satellites Show Hurricane Florence Strengthening
NASA satellites are providing a lot of different kinds of data to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center to help them understand what’s happening Hurricane…
Hurricane Sandy Viewed From Space
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…
Researchers Believe Climate Change is Increasing Frequency of Storms
Researchers from MIT and Princeton University recently published their findings on climate change and the effects it is having on so-called “100-year storms” like Hurricane…