When a storm approaches, our First Alert Weather Team works around the clock to relay crucial information, but what comes before that forecast hits the air?

ORLANDO, Fla. – Hurricane forecasting has come a long way over the last few decades. Since the 1990s, forecast track errors have been cut by more than half, while intensity forecasting has steadily ...

In this Surviving the Storm report, Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Amanda Holly takes viewers inside the work of the Hurricane Hunters and the technology helping improve hurricane forecasts. The ...

HURRICANE HUNTERS PLAY A MAJOR ROLE EVERY SEASON. WDSU METEOROLOGIST DEREK SIBLEY SHOWS YOU HOW THESE HIGHLY STRAIGHT INTO HARM’S WAY TO GET VITAL DATA. THE NOAA HURRICANE HUNTERS FLY DIRECTLY INTO A ...

Flight Director Kerri Englert goes over details for an emerging tech test day aboard “Miss Piggy,” one of NOAA’s two Lockheed Orion WP-3D aircraft, on April 7, 2026. (Madison Alder/FedScoop) LAKELAND, ...