Warmer seas fuel a more active and intense hurricane season
Warmer Atlantic and Gulf waters are driving stronger, more destructive hurricanes.
Warmer Atlantic and Gulf waters are driving stronger, more destructive hurricanes.
The loss of satellite data, along with other cuts to data, funding and staffing, could put lives at risk.
La Niña and a persistently warm ocean are teaming up to power fierce storms.
This summer, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) is being made one of NOAA’s official hurricane forecast models.
Forecasters are predicting an above-average season of between 17 and 25 named storms, with eight to 13 becoming hurricanes.
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