Every hurricane season, we become familiar with the counterclockwise-spinning spiral as the near-universal symbol for the storms. But that wouldn’t have been possible without weather satellites to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1975, meteorology took a monumental leap forward when GOES-1 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the world’s first geostationary ...

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and coastal Mississippi. It was one of the deadliest hurricanes on record and remains the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. The 2005 ...

ADVISORY CRITERIA. WE’LL KEEP YOU, ADVISED GINA. ALL RIGHT. THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT IS CUTTING SATELLITE PROGRAMS THAT ARE CRUCIAL TO FORECASTING THE WEATHER. WDSU FIRST WARNING WEATHER METEOROLOGIST ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Helene, pictured here in this NOAA satellite image, makes landfall in Florida on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 storm. The ...

For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...

On Monday the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its report on spectrum currently used by federal agencies that could be reallocated ...

The 4th grade students in the Gifted and Talented program worked deeper into their weather unit by learning about polar orbiting and geostationary orbital weather satellites.