Amid the Texas floods and a month into hurricane season, significant vacancies exist across the National Weather Service.

The loss of satellite data, along with other cuts to data, funding, and staffing, could ultimately put more lives at risk during hurricane season.

Storms like Chantal are categorized based on one danger marker. Lower category storms are still extremely dangerous due to ...

Crews in North Carolina are "overwhelmed" with water rescues and search efforts after Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall on ...

# Hurricane forecasters will continue to use all available tools, including satellite, radar, weather balloon and dropsonde data, to monitor the tropics and issue hurricane forecasts. But the loss of ...

That means TWIA has a significant degree of exposure in the event of costly storms. As of April 2025, for example, TWIA had ...

A storm in the Atlantic once lasted four weeks, but the world's recently-set record took it even a week further. Here's a ...

The satellite in question is called the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder, or SSMIS. According to NOAA, the data from ...

Colin Zarzycki, Penn State U.S. forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and 6 to ...

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