AccuWeather speaks with Commander Adam Abitol, a hurricane hunter of NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center. He shares how it's ...

Hurricane hunters from the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron fly into the eye of the storm. We ...

New hurricane hunters plane on the way ...

Hurricane Rafael is now expected to be the first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico that won't make landfall in the U.S. this ...

Rafael strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday night as the storm moves through the Caribbean Sea, soon targeting ...

“Dry air and intense wind shear will tear Rafael apart in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane will quickly lose wind intensity ...

Tropical Storm Rafael is on the verge of becoming a hurricane as it moves through the Caribbean and toward the Gulf of Mexico ...

These “hurricane hunters,” scan tropical storms for insight that can help forecasters predict their movements and intensity more accurately. Today, the United States maintains 13 aircraft ...

Data from the Air Force Hurricane Hunters indicated that maximum sustained winds had decreased to near 100 mph with higher ...

"It is obviously more susceptible to strong updrafts and downdrafts and changing altitudes than a four-engine, P-3 (Orion, the "Hurricane Hunters" aircraft)," he said. "But in most conditions ...

When the storm formed Saturday, hurricane hunters found Oscar’s hurricane wind field was only 5 to 6 miles across. "This not only made Oscar the smallest hurricane of the 2024 hurricane season ...