J ust ahead of the most dangerous stretch of hurricane season, the federal government has quietly shut off a key stream of ...

There were 347 tropical cyclone forecasts made by the NHC in 2024 and the mean track errors at every forecast interval broke ...

Intensity forecasts for Hurricane Estelle, with verified intensity estimates. (Brian Tang, University at Albany) There’s a lesson to be learned in the forecast woes so far in 2022.

A Miami TV meteorologist asked viewers to call Congress about NOAA's budget, fearing it harms hurricane forecasting. He's not the only one worried.

The formation phase is actually the hardest part of hurricane forecasting. The necessary ingredients for forming a tropical cyclone are: 1) a warm body of water; and 2) small vertical wind shear.

Probabilistic forecasts are crucial, but communicating such forecasts is a big challenge." Another challenge is forecasting the intensity of a hurricane, which has only seen slight improvements.

The first scientific hurricane forecast is widely attributed to an 1875 notice issued by Father Benito Viñes, a Jesuit priest and director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College ...

Many challenges remain. Before the new version released this year, previous versions displayed only tropical storm and hurricane alerts in effect along the coast. November 13, 2024 ...

The hurricane center issued 347 forecasts in the Atlantic in 2024, which it said was slightly above the long-term (1990-2023) average of about 325 forecasts. Those forecasts were record-breaking ...

Florida hurricane threat reveals forecasting challenges in social media era. ... The Hurricane Center is giving Invest 99L a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within the next 5 days.