Miami meteorologist John Morales expressed concern that NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft may be hampered by the budget cuts and ...

NOAA's WP-3D Orion planes, nicknamed Kermit and Miss Piggy, fly into hurricanes to gather critical data for forecasting.

Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes.

Only days after the U.S. Department of Defense abruptly announced the immediate termination of satellite data critical to ...

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

The Hurricane Hunter planes that fly into storms can also be used to generate three-dimensional storm images, but the ...

The unrelenting assault by the government on the storm monitoring and forecasting apparatus is too alarming to ignore.” ...

The satellite in question is called the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder, or SSMIS. According to NOAA, the data from ...

J ust ahead of the most dangerous stretch of hurricane season, the federal government has quietly shut off a key stream of ...