NASA - NASA's Hurricane Resource Page

Overview

Tropical Storm Bongani (Southern Indian Ocean)

Bongani has some stronger thunderstorms around its center (higher, stronger storms are depicted in purple).

11.24.09

NASA satellites have been flying over the Tropical Storm Bongani in the Southern Indian Ocean, capturing rainfall, cloud temperature, cloud heights and more.

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Typhoon Nida (Western Pacific)

The TRMM satellite measured Nida's rains on Nov. 24 at 1052 UTC.

11.24.09

Typhoon Nida grew out of the 26th tropical depression in the western Pacific Ocean, and is now lashing Yap State.

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Tropical Depression 27W (Western Pacific)

NASA's MODIS instrument captured a visible image of TD27W on Nov. 24 at 0451 UTC.

11.24.09

Another tropical depression is bringing rains and gusty winds to the Philippines, but this time it is not in Luzon.

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System 92W (Western Pacific Ocean)

System 92W's clouds as the rounded area in the center of this image (in purple and blue).

11.19.09

NASA's Aqua satellite noticed that a new tropical disturbance formed today, November 19, just 8.1 degrees north of the Equator in the western Pacific Ocean.

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NASA's Hurricane Page is All "a-Twitter"

Screenshot of NASA's Hurricane Twitter page

11.17.09

In 2005, NASA created the NASA Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Web page that covers NASA research on tropical cyclones around the world every day. Now, NASA's Hurricane page has a companion "Twitter" ...

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Research News

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna.
NASA's Hurricane Page is All "a-Twitter"

In 2005, NASA created the NASA Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Web page that covers NASA research on tropical cyclones around the world every day. Now, NASA's Hurricane page has a companion "Twitter" page.
El Niño Pumping Up, Warm Kelvin Wave Surges Toward South America →

Recent sea-level height data from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite indicates that El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence.
New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images.
GOES Offers Real-Time Hurricane Alley Movies

Thanks to NASA's GOES Project, individuals can now access real-time satellite data from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
NASA Satellites Catalog the Deadly History of Tropical Storm Parma

NASA satellites cataloged the deadly history of Tropical Storm Parma, during its long life (Sept 28-Oct 14, 2009) in the Western Pacific, where it caused flooding, destruction and death in the Philippines and China.
Floundering El Niños Make for Fickle Forecasts

Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niña to her warmer sibling, El Niño.