As of 10 a.m., Melissa tied with the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane for the third-strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic ...

Staffing cuts and a federal government shutdown are stretching scientists’ ability to make valuable hurricane observations.

They fly straight into the world’s most dangerous storms to gather life-saving data. Here's the skinny on the pilots and ...

The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the ...

Gathering data from planes inside hurricanes is a dangerous game and 52 lives have been lost since operations began in 1944.

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the "Hurricane Hunters," were forced to turn back ...

High above Earth, satellites like the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-2 watch and track storms such as Hurricane Melissa ...

Its intensity at landfall appeared to tie an all-time Atlantic Basin record. But the devastation in Jamaica wasn't all ...

The NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center captured video aboard its Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, Kermit, as it was buffeted by ...

Hurricane Melissa moves toward Bermuda after more than 30 die across Caribbean More than 30 deaths are being attributed to ...

Hurricane Melissa data is being sent to CSU's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Lab to investigate why ...