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Dozens of tornadoes hit the central U.S. Friday through Sunday, tearing through suburbs and small towns and damaging hundreds of homes from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa.

A tropical disturbance swirling off the western Africa coast has developed enough to be designated as Invest 95L by the National Hurricane Center, and some long range forecast models suggest it could eventually have eyes on the Caribbean.

Climate change and El Niño are contributing to conditions in the eastern Pacific that make hurricanes more likely.

NOAA slightly increased its outlook this week for the 2023 hurricane season.

The intensity and duration of hurricanes and typhoons have increased as a result of shifting climate patterns around the world.

Channel 9 meteorologists are tracking two tropical storms on Saturday.

AccuWeather meteorologists recently put the final touches on their initial forecast for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, and they are emphasizing that preparations should begin in earnest even though the official start date is two months away. Mother Nature threw a bit of an atmospheric curveball in 2022 despite the presence of a moderate to strong La Niña. The Atlantic generated no named storms in August, but three hurricanes roamed the basin in November. The overall number of named sto...

Before Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s southwest coast with 155 mph winds, it went through two separate bursts of so-called “rapid intensification” when a cyclone’s top wind speeds rise by 35 mph in a single day.

Kamoru Abiodun Lawal’s profile on The Conversation

It has been numerically demonstrated that the turbulence above the boundary is important to tropical cyclone intensification and rapid intensification, but the three-dimensional structures of the sub-grid-scale (SGS) eddy have not been revealed due to the lack of observational data. In this study, two numerical simulations of Super Typhoon Rammasun (2014) were conducted with the Advanced Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model by incorporating the large-eddy simulation (LES) technique, in whic...