Hurricane forecasters are losing 3 key satellites ahead of peak storm season − a meteorologist explains why it matters
The loss of satellite data, along with other cuts to data, funding and staffing, could put lives at risk.
The loss of satellite data, along with other cuts to data, funding and staffing, could put lives at risk.
Cuts, chaos and climate change are converging to leave Americans more vulnerable than they were in 2005.
Warmer ocean waters provide the energy hurricanes need to form, intensify and maintain their strength.
Hurricane Idalia and other storms in recent years have rapidly intensified before their devasting landfalls.
Cuts in staffing and threats to funding at NOAA are diminishing operations that forecasters rely on.
Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for forecasts.
The firings of hundreds of NOAA and NWS employees put American lives and the American economy in danger.
Increasingly destructive storms are putting our communities and economy at increasing risk of harm.
Storms left the small Florida community facing an enormous reconstruction effort.
The Atlantic basin saw 18 named storms, with 11 of those becoming hurricanes and five intensifying into major hurricanes.
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