The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1, a developing El Niño could result in a more tame hurricane season. However, all it takes is one big storm to hit a populated area to make it a bad hurricane season regardless.
Forecasting a Hurricane
Hurricane forecasts have improved drastically in recent decades. Cuts to federal funding and job losses in these programs that help keep Americans safe from extreme weather will halt progress and slim forecasting resources.
Both humans and computer models need to know the location, intensity and structure of a hurricane and its surrounding environment. Satellites are important for tracking storms, but they can’t see inside the storms.
Hurricane hunters are a group of skilled pilots that fly through the storms all season to collect storm data which then gets transferred to forecasters and computer…
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