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Overview

Nadine (Atlantic Ocean)

09.14.12

Tropical Storm Nadine's life story during the week of Sept. 11 has been about the storm's continual struggle to become a hurricane.

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Sanba (NW Pacific)

09.14.12

Forecasters expect Sanba to make landfall on the south coast of South Korea on Sept. 17.

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Kristy (East Pacific)

09.14.12

Aqua captured an image of weakening Tropical Storm Kristy and another low pressure area that is developing and has the potential to become a new tropical depression.

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Michael (Atlantic Ocean)

09.11.12

As of 11 a.m. EDT on Sept. 11 Michael still had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph.

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Leslie (Atlantic Ocean)

09.11.12

Leslie made landfall Tuesday, Sept. 10 in Fortune, Newfoundland, at about 8:30 a.m. AST (7:30 a.m. EDT) with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph.

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NASA Hurricane Updates on Twitter

Check NASA's Hurricane Twitter feed for a daily behind the scenes look at storms in the tropics.

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NASA Hurricane Updates on Facebook

Check NASA's Hurricane on Facebook provides daily looks at storms in the tropics and it's updated on Weekends during storms

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Research News

Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch →

Isaac's track away from the gulf's warmest waters helped to keep it from intensifying rapidly, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita did in 2005.
NASA's Hurricane Mission Takes Flight

NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia
NASA Compares Hurricanes Isaac and Katrina: 7 Years Apart

With Hurricane Isaac making landfall on the northern Gulf coast almost 7 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall and in almost the same location in southeastern Louisiana that Katrina did, it is natural to compare the two storms.
Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments

HS3, will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
Latest El Niño/La Niña Watch Data →

NASA's OSTM/Jason-2 satellite collects sea surface height data of all the world's oceans and NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is on an El Nino Watch. See it develop here.
Monsoon, Tropical Cyclones Bring Massive Flooding to Manila →

Over the past two weeks, a combination of the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclones passing in the vicinity of the northern Philippines has resulted in massive flooding in and around the Philippine capital.
Watching a Train of Storminess in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

This NOAA GOES-13 satellite image from August 9 shows some very active tropics with four areas, like a train of storms, that forecasters are watching.