Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

(See the image above.) Formation chance through 48 hours is high at 70 percent and through seven days even higher at 90 ...

But all seems quiet — for now. "Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days," National Hurricane Center ...

Five tropical lows are likely to develop off northern Australia in coming days with one already off Cairns, triggering a ...

Tropical cyclones are heat engines powered ... one of the first scientists to study the effect of winds shear on hurricane formation. In his classic 1968 paper, "Global View of the Origin of ...

Phil Klotzbach, professor with Colorado State University, told the group that 2024 was a weird hurricane season, and 2025 is a coin toss now.

The wind shear reduces cloud formation in the Atlantic, and thus fewer tropical storms. The conditions are opposite during La Nina, when cooler Pacific temperatures result in downdrafts there ...

Rapid Intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones (TCs), defined as an intensity increase of at least 13 m/s within 24 hours, remains one of the most challenging phenomena to forecast because of its ...

In this game, you’ll analyze data that was collected during the development of three tropical ... storms begin the Cloud Lab challenge now. I study the physical processes leading to the ...