The instrument recorded an astounding wind gust of 406 km/h (252 mph) a few hundred metres above the ocean’s surface. Experts with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric ...

This means that while the type is one of the oldest in the USAF, some of the airframes are among the newest. Here are some of the oldest aircraft types in the USAF. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even though no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S for the ...

WASHINGTON, USA — The Hurricane Hunters, under the direction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force Reserve, fly directly into tropical cyclones to gather ...

IN FLIGHT, CARIBBEAN SEA - OCTOBER 27: (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images' editorial policy.) In this handout image ...

“Dropsondes are small cylindrical devices that are used by organizations like NOAA to collect valuable information during extreme weather events like hurricanes or atmospheric rivers," an NSF NCAR ...

Hurricane Melissa broke a world record for the highest wind ever reported in a tropical system. Record wind gust for tropical cyclone measured by dropsonde in Hurricane Melissa. Why are we just now ...

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa unleashed a fury of Category 5 winds as it approached Jamaica in October, and experts now confirm it produced the strongest gust ever recorded by NOAA Hurricane Hunters.

NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Wayne Freeman’s Air Force career ended at Keesler Air Force Base in 1984, but it started 30 years prior. Freeman had just graduated from high school in Indiana. “The Navy ...

My worry for the 2025 hurricane season was what I labeled early-on as an “incendiary” mix of more frequent and extreme weather events with a degraded ability to save life and property. With the end of ...

DAYTON — Hello, everyone! I hope your week is going well. Meteorologist Nick Dunn here with you on what has been a rather grey and damp day here in the Miami Valley. There was some pretty big news in ...