The National Hurricane Center (NHC) Miami, Fla., assigned an area in the northwestern Bahamas an 80 percent probability of becoming a tropical cyclone over Memorial Day weekend.
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Tropical Storm Bud (Eastern Pacific Ocean)
NASA satellites are providing rainfall, temperature, pressure, visible and infrared data to forecasters as Hurricane Bud is expected to make a quick landfall in western Mexico this weekend before ...
Tropical Cyclone Season Gets Started in the Northern ...
There are three active tropical systems in the Northern Hemisphere spread across three different ocean basins.
Typhoon Sanvu (NW Pacific Ocean)
imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed an impressive Typhoon Sanvu already affecting the islands of Iwo To and Chichi Jima, Japan.
Alberto (Atlantic Ocean)
On May 23, 2012, the remnants of post-tropical storm Alberto were chasing a frontal system over the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles east of the U.S. East Coast.
Aletta (Eastern Pacific Ocean)
Tropical Storm Aletta, the first tropical system of the Eastern Pacific season, formed southwest of Mexico on May 11, 2012.
Research News
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Tropical Cyclone Season Gets Started in the Northern Hemisphere →
There are three active tropical systems in the Northern Hemisphere spread across three different ocean basins.
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NASA's Hurricane Twitter Exceeds 200,000 Followers
NASA's Hurricane Twitter, which posts the web site's updates, exceeded 200,000 followers recently - a landmark that just a few NASA Twitter accounts have reached.
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Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature →
This visualization shows sea surface current flows. The flows are colored by corresponding sea surface temperature data.
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NOAA Announces Modification to Hurricane Scale
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is the standard used to measure hurricane intensity, and this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is making a modification of the scale.
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Shrinking Ice, Rising Seas →
Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. When ice on land, such as mountain glaciers or the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, melts, that water contributes to sea level rise.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Measures Flooding Rains from Australia Monsoon
A monsoon trough continues to drench northeastern Australia and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured and calculated the rainfall in the region.
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GOES-15 Active; GOES-11 Deactivated After 12 Years
For 12 years, GOES-11 tracked weather and severe storms that affected the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific region.