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In the early morning hours of October 18, 1950, violent Hurricane King struck Miami, FL bringing wide-spread destruction to south Florida. It was the most devastating tropical cyclone to hit the area ...

The sea height anomaly (SHA) represents the deviation of the sea height with respect to its mean. Sea height anomaly fields from the altimeter constellation, are used in this study. For analysis and ...

On the evening of September 8, 1900, a major hurricane struck Galveston, Texas. It became the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States and altered the city forever. The disturbance that formed the ...

On the morning of September 26, 1955, a Navy Hurricane Hunter plane carrying out routine reconnaissance of Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean lost contact with its base. Subsequent search efforts turned ...

Early on the morning of July 31, 1715, a Spanish treasure fleet was caught by a severe hurricane while exiting the Bahama Channel. Eleven ships of the fleet were either sunk or foundered upon reefs ...

On the morning of October 2, 1893, a severe hurricane came roaring across the Louisiana coast near the village of Chenière Caminada, all but wiping the town flat and killing over half the population.

On Aug. 21, 1873 the weather service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps issued its first warning for a hurricane. A long-tracking Cape Verde-type storm, it was initially detected by ship and warnings were ...

NOAA and partner researchers successfully completed their eighteenth PIRATA Northeast Extension cruise in support of a key tropical Atlantic observing system.

A recent study by scientists at AOML found that extensive weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) occurred in the 2000s, but has paused since the early 2010s due to a ...

Tropical cyclones are among the most deadly and costly natural disasters that affect the United States and many other countries each year. This has led the scientific community to prioritize improving ...

This post was originally published at Climate.Gov’s ENSO blog. Dr. Sang-Ki Lee, is a physical oceanographer at AOML. His research focuses on the interactions between the atmosphere and ocean, and how ...