Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NOAA WP-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter research plane is shown at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, on May 6, ...

Maintenance issues and staffing shortages caused multiple missed hurricane hunter missions between 2019 and 2024, impacting data collection for storms like Dorian, Lee, and Idalia. Senator Ted Cruz ...

When a hurricane is in the forecast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deploys its famed Hurricane Hunter team to gather data directly from the storm. The team uses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the “Hurricane Hunters,” was forced to turn ...

Before tropical cyclones can significantly strengthen, they generally must first become vertically aligned, with their rotating centers stacked through the atmosphere. New research using nearly three ...

Hurricane hunters — aircraft crews from the U.S. Air Force and NOAA that routinely fly hundreds of missions each season (NOAA banked 63 missions in 2025 while the Air Force flew a total of 77 missions ...

NOAA hurricane hunter planes, crucial for gathering storm data, have been grounded during recent hurricanes due to maintenance and staffing issues. A government audit reveals a concerning increase in ...

The Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recapitalization Act, bipartisan legislation that would codify the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Hunter mission and authorize NOAA to ...

Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into Jamaica as a category five storm, was so powerful that it made the Air Force reserves “Hurricane hunters”—the veteran pilots who fly into hurricanes—turn back ...

A bipartisan group of senators are trying to triple the size of the Hurricane Hunter fleet – the three hulking and aging aircraft used to fly directly into hurricanes and tropical storm systems to ...