Hurricane Gustav remains a strong Category Three storm with 115-mile-an-hour winds as it continues to churn its way toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. (Aug. 31)

2008 National Hurricane Conference interview in Orlando. Bill talks of ham radio and ground truth reporting as well as preparing for the 2008 season. KD4RAA and K4JVP are with the Storm Education Team (www.stormstudy.com) that report directly to the Hurricane Center through the voipwx network (www.voipwx.net) and WX4NHC (www.wx4nhc.org) with surface reports as the storms make landfall.

Tour a Hurricane Hunter Aircraft. On location in Rhode Island at the Air Force Base. Video tour of athe Hurrican Hunter in Rhode Island during the NOAA Hurricane Awareness Tour in 2006. This is an exclusive and original video from the New Day Group (www.TheNewDayGroup.com) Archives brought to you on awecast TV www.awecast.tv.

New National Hurricane Center director discusses upcoming storm season

This is footage taken at the National Hurricane Center (then located in Coral Gables, Florida) on the morning of July 23, 1985 as Tropical Storm Bob was impacting South Florida. Neil Frank, director of the Hurricane Center at the time, can be heard (and seen) talking on the phone to local government officials. Storm chaser Jim Leonard is also in the background.

Ever Wonder What It's Like To Fly Directly Into A Hurricane? Fox 29 Meteorologist David Aldrich Travels To Cape May County, New Jersey For A Special Tour Of NOAA's P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter Aircraft.

A tour of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Hurricane Hunter aircraft at the Cape May County Airport in New Jersey as part of an East Coast publicity tour, May 1, 2007. Featured are new National Hurricane Center Director Bill Proenza and well as NHC Senior Hurricane Specialist Dr. Richard Knabb. Produced by Pete Smith of the Seaside Heights, New Jersey Office of Public Relations.

Our Skywarn group got an invitation in the fall of 2005 to attend a tour of the National Hurricane Center in miami, Florida.

The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center has been selected as a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center, a distinction shared by only 63 other centers across the country.

www.EmploymentCrossing.com The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, pushed back its shuttle mission to the Hubble space telescope, saying it lost a week of preparation when Hurricane Ike forced an evacuation of Mission Control in...

Volunteers and aid agencies are still rushing to Texas to aid tens of thousands who lack food, water, ice and electricity in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. More than 30,000 refugees are still living in public shelters...

As Hurricane Ike churns toward the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Hunter aircraft are flying into the storm gathering data for forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Florida. The modified cargo planes are operated jointly by the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. VOA's Paul Sisco has more on a recent flight through a storm.

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The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has again intensified. The storm is expected to strengthen as it approaches Cuba and southern Florida by Monday. (Sept. 6)

Rafael Nadal advances through a tough match with Sam Querrey, while Mardy Fish coasts by Gael Monfils. Peter Bodo and Jon Levey recap the Day 8 action.

The last mother left in the tournament is probably not who you think. Peter Bodo and Jon Levey fill us on the events of Day 7 at the US Open.

Hurricane Gustav has already swept across the Caribbean killing over 80 people in Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. Now the storm has swelled to a Category 4 storm and the US National Hurricane Centre says it could become a Category 5.

Hurricane Gustav is currently lashing Cuba and forecasters say it will cross the Gulf of Mexico and hit central Louisiana on Tuesday with the same force as Hurricane Katrina, exactly three years ago.

Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports.

August 29, 2008
Gustav reached hurricane strength Friday, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. The storm blasted Jamaica earlier in the day, and its is expected to take it to Grand Cayman soon, according to the National Hurricane Center.

At least 51 people died in southwestern Haiti and eight were killed in neighboring Dominican Republic as Gustav, then a tropical storm, passed through Wednesday, officials there said.

But fear and uncertainty about Gustav's position and strength by Monday sent emergency officials and politicians in the United States scrambling to prepare for a possible landfall of a major hurricane somewhere along the Gulf Coast.
As of 2 p.m. ET Friday, Gustav was 125 miles (200 kilometers) east-southeast of Grand Cayman and about 425 miles (685 kilometers) east-southeast of Cuba's western tip, the hurricane center said.

The storm was moving west-northwest at about 11 mph (19 km/h), the center said said. Forecasters expected it to turn toward the northwest later Friday and continue on that track over the weekend. On that path, "The center of Gustav will pass near or over the Cayman Islands later today, over the western portions of Cuba on Saturday, and into the southern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday," the center said.

This is one of the very first news broadcasts I recorded on video tape, back in July, 1978. This is local South Florida news station, WTVJ Channel 4, covering Tropical Storm Amelia, which developed off the Texas coast on July 30th. Reporter Al Sunshine interviews the late, great John Hope who, at that time, was a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. At the station, meteorlogist Don Carson gives anchorman Bob Mayer, and viewers, details on the current position of the storm, along with South Florida's weather conditions.

Hurricane Dolly lashes Texas-Mexico border
Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane today after it made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. But Dolly's sustained winds were still about 95 miles an hour. The storm is expected to produce from 8 to 12 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in isolated spots, and widespread flooding is likely.

Robert Brookens of The Barometer Bob Show, USWeatherWatchers, and Hurricane Hollow interviews Bill Read at the 2008 National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, Florida

This is a montage of satellite and radar loops from Hurricane Kate in November 1985. The beginning of the clip is footage I shot at the National Hurricane Center on November 18, 1985 as Hurricane Kate moved westward through the Bahamas towards landfall on the north coast of Cuba. The middle portion of the clip are segments of Tropical Weather Updates from The Weather Channel on November 19, 1985, as Kate moved along the north coast of Cuba... including several portions with the late, great John Hope. The last part of the clip is footage I shot at the National Weather Service office in Apalachicola, Florida on November 21, 1985, during the storm chase, as Kate was approaching its final landfall in the Florida panhandle.

Hurricane Ivan was a classic, long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 strength three times during its lifespan. Ivan caused tremendous damage as it crossed Grenada, the Cayman Islands and made landfall near the Alabama/Florida border. Maximum sustained winds at landfall in the U.S. are estimated at 120mph with gusts to 140mph, Category Three intensity. At landfall, the storm's minimum central pressure was 946mb (27.94in). This video also includes some behind-the-scenes footage from the National Hurricane Center including clips of my good friends and hurricane forecasters, Lixion Avila, Jack Beven, Max Mayfield (the center's director at that time)... as well as another good friend, Monroe County ex-Civil Defense Director Billy Wagner. Also in the background is Florida Governor, Charlie Crist.

Hurricane Frances was a long-track Cape Verde hurricane that reached a peak intensity of 145mph, Category Four, north of Puerto Rico. Moderate wind shear began to affect the storm and it crossed the Southeast and Central Bahamas as a Category Three with winds of 115-130mph. Frances continued to weaken to a Category Two, with winds of 105mph, as it approached the Northwest Bahamas. Steering currents weakend on September 4th and Frances responded by turning to the west and slowing to a crawl. Over the following 48 hours, Frances made a very slow landfall over the Florida east coast, coming onshore near the south end of Hutchinson Island as a category Two, with peak winds of 105-110mph. Minimum central pressure at landfall in Florida was 960mb (28.35in). I was accompanied on this chase by storm chasers Jose Garcia and Karl Hoarau. The video also includes some behind-the-scenes footage from the National Hurricane Center, with several forecasters, including my good friends Eric Blake and Max Mayfield (the center's director at that time).

Here are some of the hurricane tracks for 2005, the warnings were published by the National Hurricane Center-NOAA

Various loops of Hurricane Andrew's landfall in Southeast Florida from the Miami and Tampa WSR-57 radars. On several of the long-range Miami loops, a large black wedge shape (indicating no reflectivity) appears on the very last frame...this occurred when the radome blew off the National Hurricane Center building during a 164mph gust, destroying the Miami radar. After Miami's radar failed (and Key West's radar had lost power), forecasters were still able to monitor the progress of Andrew's eyewall, which was just in range, on Tampa radar as the hurricane crossed the southern portion of the Florida peninsula. On the close-up loops of Andrew's eyewall, a distinct dual-hemispheric organization of the radar eye can be seen, with each half rotating cyclonically in tandem with the other, in a trochoidal looping pattern. Post-analysis indicated that one of these was the storm's wind-center, while the other was the pressure-center, which were displaced from each other by a distance of about 5 miles.

This is my Hurricane Andrew chase video. The footage was taken during Andrew's landfall on the Southeast Florida coast, at Coconut Grove, south of Miami. Though Andrew was extremely small, moving very quickly and made landfall about 15 miles to the south, my location was right at the edge of the hurricane's northern eyewall. Unfortunately the entire peak of the storm was at night, however, using a portable spotlight, I was able to capture footage throughout the entire event. Even with the challenging video conditions, Andrew's ferocity is clearly obvious in this footage. The roar of the wind is deafening, punctuated by breaking glass and other debris. Peak winds occur between 13 through 17 minutes into the video, and are sustained near 130mph with gusts to 150mph. The anemometer at the National Hurricane Center (about 2 miles west of my location) failed after recording a gust to 164mph. Based on post-analysis, Andrew is now estimated to have had sustained winds of 165mph with peak gusts near 200-215mph at landfall in South Florida, making it one of only three Category Five hurricanes ever to strike the United States.