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Sep 14, 2018

Hurricane Florence Is Dumping a Huge Amount of Rain on the Carolinas

A tremendous amount of rain has already fallen on the Carolinas Friday morning (Sept. 14) in the hours after the Hurricane Florence made landfall along the border. People in the storm's path shared video on social media of the now-Category 1 hurricane's still-intense 90 mph (150 km/h) winds as the...

Sep 14, 2018

Watch Hurricane Florence Make Landfall in This Incredible Space Station Video

And cameras aboard the International Space Station managed to catch incredible footage just a few minutes after the storm's landfall. Government weather satellites captured this image of Hurricane Florence shortly after its landfall Sept. 14, 2018. (Image credit: NOAA)At the time, the storm carried winds of about 90 mph (145...

Sep 14, 2018

Hurricane Florence Drowned a Riverfront 30 Miles from the North Carolina Coast (Video)

In a hurricane, as Live Science has reported, the most significant threat is flooding, not the high winds. And Hurricane Florence, though far from the fastest-windspeed storm in recent memory, remains a significant threat precisely due to the large surge and huge rainfall it's dumping on affected areas. Already, video...

Oct 9, 2018

See Hurricane Michael from Space in These Satellite Images

Particularly important are the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES, which are jointly run by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. See more As of Tuesday morning (Oct. 9), Michael is a Category 2 storm, with sustained wind speeds of almost 100 mph (155 km/h), according...

Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael Strengthens to 'Unprecedented' Category 4 Storm Overnight

After gaining strength overnight, Hurricane Michael will be a storm of unprecedented intensity for the Florida Panhandle when it is expected to make landfall later today (Oct. 10). This storm will bring deadly surge to the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend coast and is not comparable to anything we have...

Oct 10, 2018

Why Did Hurricane Michael Become Such a Monster Storm So Quickly?

Forecasters watching Hurricane Michael barrel toward the Gulf coast of Florida earlier this week saw the storm do something most unusual. The hurricane intensified despite encountering wind shear —a change in wind speed or direction at different levels in the atmosphere—that might have normally weakened the storm. Michael's steady intensification...

Oct 10, 2018

Peer into Hurricane Michael's Mesmerizing Eye in This Eerie Time-Lapse Video

As Hurricane Michael, now a Category 4 storm, bears down on the Florida Panhandle, a hypnotizing, close-up view from far above Earth shows the whirling clouds circling its eye. Time-lapse video was captured Wednesday morning (Oct. 10) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite GOES-16 and was shared...

Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael Is Officially More Powerful than Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Michael made an unprecedented landfall on the northern Gulf coast of Florida Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 10). Just as it came ashore, meteorologists with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) released data showing that the rapidly strengthening storm made landfall as the third-strongest hurricane in continental U.S. history. It edged out...

Mar 21, 2019

'Inland Oceans' from One of Southern Hemisphere's Worst Storms Seen from Space

A deadly cyclone that hit southern Africa left extensive flooding that looked like inland oceans in images from space taken just days after the storm made landfall. Sentinel-1, a satellite mission that's part of the European Union's Earth-observation program, Copernicus, captured imagery on March 19 that showed far-reaching floodwaters around...

May 2, 2019

Monster Cyclone in India Prompts the Biggest Evacuation in the Country's History

A massive cyclone is set to batter India over the next few days, spurring the biggest evacuation in the country's history. The extremely severe cyclone, dubbed Fani, is pummeling the Bay of Bengal and is projected to make landfall by Thursday night with approximately 120 mph (190 km/h) winds, with...

May 23, 2019

The Atlantic May See Up to 4 Major Hurricanes This Season, New Forecast Says

Scientists are predicting a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season this year, with two to four major hurricanes reaching at least Category 3 status, with winds of 111 mph (178 km/h) or higher, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today (May 23). But this near-normal description doesn't mean people in...

Jul 12, 2019

New Orleans Braces for Intense Floods As Tropical Storm Barry Rolls In

New Orleans is bracing for a tropical storm that is expected to hit tonight or tomorrow, bringing with it chances of severe flooding. Tropical Storm Barry is slowly moving west-northwestward toward the southeastern coast of Louisiana, according to an advisory from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The storm's center...

Jul 13, 2019

Barry Becomes a Hurricane, Barrels Toward Louisiana Coast

Hurricane Barry is barreling northwest toward Louisiana, packing maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with heavy rain, storm surges and dangerous winds expected along the northwest Gulf Coast. As of 11 a.m. ET, Barry was moving northwest in the Gulf of Mexico at 6 mph (9 km/h), and...

Aug 26, 2019

Nuking a Hurricane Would Probably Just Create a Slightly Bigger, Radioactive Hurricane

President Donald Trump wants to nuke hurricanes into submission before they reach the Atlantic coastline, according to a bizarre article published yesterday (Aug. 25) on Axios. Why can't we do that? he reportedly asked. This raises an important question: Has Trump been reading old Live Science articles? And if not,...

Aug 28, 2019

Tropical Storm Dorian Just Turned into a Hurricane

Tropical Storm Dorian gathered strength and turned into a hurricane this afternoon near the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm is currently moving northwest at 13 mph (21 km/h) over the U.S. Virgin islands. It's expected to continue...