A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the “Hurricane Hunters,” was forced to turn back to base after encountering unusually heavy turbulence entering ...
Hurricane Melissa was verified to have produced a 252 MPH wind gust, one of the strongest recordings ever on Earth. Associate Scientist at University of Miami Andy Hazelton and Air Force Reserve ...
Atmospheric rivers — and the flooding they bring — are intensifying with climate change.For the past decade, the same ...
Tossed and battered by violent wind and severe turbulence, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of ...
The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, not NOAA, flew into the December 2025 atmospheric river that caused historic flooding in Western Washington. Earlier this week, we ...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa is a massive Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 185 miles per hour, one of the strongest storms in the Atlantic. The winds are so strong that the Hurricane ...
A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached Jamaica. A NOAA hurricane hunter tracking Hurricane Melissa last month measured ...
As Californians break out umbrellas for a rainy holiday, specialized crews are gearing up to fly their planes directly into the winter's incoming atmospheric rivers.
BOULDER, Colo. — A fixed-wing drone built in Boulder by Black Swift Technologies made history this week by collecting what appears to be a record amount of high-resolution data from Hurricane Melissa.