Hurricanes

Millions of Florida residents had to endure a terrifying twenty-four hours as Hurricane Ian pummeled the state beginning on Wednesday afternoon. As reported by Politico, the massive storm, considered one...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It was a bad idea—for many, many reasons. There are few natural forces that kill so many and cost so much as the hurricane. Hurricane...

When disasters hit, they can mean days to weeks without power, and sometimes they allow just enough time to grab a bag of supplies and go. Now is the time...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Hurricane Michael wasn’t the first storm to deliver a painful blow to U.S. air power. Storms in 1992 and 1933 also devastated East Coast air bases,...

Sixteen years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Hurricane Ida struck at Port Fourchon, La., on Aug. 29, as a Category 4 hurricane with 240 kilometres per hour...

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana over the weekend, and the winds have already knocked out power in the entirety of New Orleans, while also inflicting a huge amount of...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Repairing the damaged F-22s will likely take years and hundreds of millions of dollars. When Japan similarly lost a fifth of its F-2 force (eighteen...

We are now just weeks away from the start of the 2021Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 until November 30, and while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of tropical storm names for only the...

Climate disasters started early in 2020 — and kept on coming. The catastrophic fires in Australia in early 2020 were actually a holdover from 2019, but they were soon followed...

If more evidence were needed that climate change is a reality and that it is not only a phenomenon taking place in faraway continents, wildfires, hurricanes, and massive rains have...

A lot can go wrong when hurricanes stall. Their destructive winds last longer. The storm surge can stay high. And the rain keeps falling. During Hurricane Sally, Naval Air Station...