National Hurricane Center forecasts rely on hurricane hunters, including flight crews who fly into hurricanes to gather data.

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Firings at the Office of Aircraft Operations threaten to reduce the quality of data critical for hurricane monitoring, prediction, and warning. Layoffs last week at NOAA’s Office of Aircraft ...

Mark Eakin, a recently retired NOAA veteran who ran its Coral Reef Watch program for many years, told the Miami Herald he was alarmed by the “indiscriminate” slashes throughout the agency, which ...

On Feb. 28, NOAA terminated two flight directors and one electronics engineer, a move that could significantly impact hurricane forecasting for the upcoming season. The cuts are a part of the ...

There is growing concern that staff cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, could impact Floridians this hurricane season. CBS News reports more than 800 employees ...

open image in gallery Hazelton says NOAA was already understaffed. He said that the agency will be strained unless decisions are reversed (Andrew Hazelton) Over the years, hurricane forecasting ...

NOAA's two WP-3D Orion aircraft collect Doppler radar data that's fed into the models, a capability that doesn't exist in the Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft, Franklin said.

LAKELAND, Fla. — They survived dangerous flights through hurricanes but didn’t survive DOGE cuts and now an ex-NOAA Hurricane Hunter slams the layoffs as “making no sense whatsoever.” ...

The National Hurricane Center announced that it has changed some of its methods for the upcoming hurricane season. Among ...

Experts warn that the firings could negatively impact the accuracy of weather forecasts, including hurricane predictions. While NOAA officials declined to comment, former employees and elected ...