hurricanes

Hurricanes, Sea Salt, Dust, and Smoke

Caitlin Dempsey

This visualization from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows how particles flow around the Earth's atmosphere.

Scientists are Improving How They Track Hurricanes with New Satellites

Elizabeth Borneman

The Atlantic hurricane season in 2017 has given researchers the opportunity to perfect some of their previous methods and put into practice new instruments used to track hurricanes.

Hurricane Ophelia on October 11, 2017. Image: European Space Agency.

Hurricane Ophelia is the Strongest Hurricane to Form East of the United States

Caitlin Dempsey

On Saturday, October 15, 2017, Hurricane Ophelia strengthened to Category 3 status making it the first recorded eastern hurricane to be this strong.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Fred off the west coast Africa at 11:15 a.m. Cabo Verde time (12:15 Universal Time) on August 31, 2015. Source: NASA

This Hurricane Formed Farther East Than Any Other Since Satellites Began Tracking Hurricanes

Elizabeth Borneman

A hurricane, dubbed Hurricane Fred, formed farther east than any other recorded hurricane since satellites began tracking such weather events

The USGS streamgage on the Neches River at Beaumont, TX, showing the period when Hurricane Ike came ashore in 2008. The line shows the flow rate, and once it passes below zero, that shows the river has reversed flow. Source: USGS, public domain

Rivers that Flow Backwards

Elizabeth Borneman

Read about how the Amazon once flowed east to west and how the strength of Hurricane Isaac once change the course of the Mississippi river.