The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of ...

Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 storm as of the most recent update from the NHC, with maximum sustained wind gusts reaching ...

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the "Hurricane Hunters," were forced to turn back ...

The brave men and woman onboard NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplanes need to remain cool, calm and collected during extreme ...

A Hurricane Hunter flight won’t be tracking this week’s West Coast storm, according to NOAA. Seattle weather blogger Scott ...

The NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center captured video aboard its Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, Kermit, as it was buffeted by ...

They fly straight into the world’s most dangerous storms to gather life-saving data. Here's the skinny on the pilots and ...

A U.S. Air Force WC-130J Weatherbird from the 53rd WRS, as well as NOAA aircraft, have had to abandon planned missions early due to the strength of ...

Currently south of Jamaica, Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has been continuing intensification Monday, and the storm is so ...

In a rare occurrence, Hurricane Hunters were forced to abandon their missions twice in two days while attempting to gather ...

The federal government’s hurricane hunters have continued to fly despite the shutdown. At least two missions — one operated ...

Melissa is the fifth-most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest such hurricane to make ...