Collecting data inside the storm: NOAA deploys new technology to study hurricanes

NOAA unveils its newest instrument to its The 2024 Hurricane Season marks the first year NOAA has deployed StreamSondes in large numbers, giving scientists the ability to gather more data from inside tropical storms/hurricanes. The small, light-weight instruments are released into the storm from NOAA's P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunting aircraft. The P-3 is a modified aircraft designed to fly into hurricanes to collect data. NOAA Researchers aim to revolutionize technology for gathering storm data to increase forecast accuracy and better understand storm dynamics.

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Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 formed in the Caribbean on Wednesday afternoon and is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday. Hurricane Watches have been posted for parts of Honduras with Tropical Storm Watches in northern Nicaragua. The NHC says Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 will continue to move westward toward the western Caribbean Sea, and Jamaica should see showers and thunderstorms associated with the system throughout the next day.

Do we really have to go through all of this again? This question is on the minds of millions of Floridians as hurricane season again displays the tenacity of the cockroach.

Today on Tracking the Tropics, we'll have the latest on a disturbance in the Caribbean that is likely to form in the coming days. The show streams live at 12:30 p.m. ET on WFLA.com and the WFLA app.

Peoria, Ill. (WMBD) — It has been a warm start to November in Central Illinois, and while this warmth is expected to continue through the weekend, big changes are on the horizon next week as our first push of winter-like air reaches the area. The pattern change will begin early next week as a deepening [...]

San Diego River Park Foundation and the City of San Diego have cleared out an encampment near SeaWorld Drive to ensure those living there had somewhere to go before it was cleared. Though the outreach was covered by the grant, the city would ultimately foot the bill for the cleanup of more than 155,000 pounds of trash.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center began advisories Wednesday on a system it forecasts to become the season's next tropical depression or storm. Long-range forecast models predict it will intensify into a hurricane and threaten Florida by the middle of next week. As of 4 p.m. Eastern time what the NHC is calling Potential Tropical Cyclone Nineteen was located about 460 miles east of ...

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century, is on thin ice. According to Ars Technica senior space reporter Eric Berger's insider sources, there's an "at least 50-50" chance that the rocket "will be canceled." "Not Block 1B. [...]

A slug of moisture that impacted the Gulf Coast with Tornado Warnings and flash flooding is expected to cause heavy rainfall across the eastern Carolinas. Expected rainfall totals could approach an inch along the I-40 corridor and 2-4 inches along the Outer Banks. Forecast models show an area of low pressure is expected to develop along the frontal boundary, which will create blustery conditions and erosion issues for beaches from the Tar Heel State into southeastern Virginia.

The Philippines ordered evacuations Wednesday ahead of Typhoon Usagi's arrival, as the UN's disaster office sought $32.9 million in aid for the country after recent storms killed more than 150 people. About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year, killing scores of people and keeping millions in enduring poverty.