Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Jul 15, 2025, 08:30am EDT The combination of AI, advanced ...

For most of the modern era, improvements in weather prediction followed a predictable trajectory. Better sensors led to ...

In the early 1990s, a University of Michigan graduate student named Jeff Masters started working on an internet weather project to share real-time weather information and satellite imagery, something ...

NOAA said it would discontinue the 'ingest, processing and distribution' of data collected by 3 weather satellites that the agency jointly runs with the Defense Department Weather experts are warning ...

It was only a generation or two ago that weather forecasts were not to be taken too seriously: funny-guy meteorologists on the local news wisecracking about ruined golf plans. That has long stopped ...

From high-wind forecasts and wildfire behavior to floods, aviation hazards, air quality and space weather, science developed ...

Meteorologists called the end of the DOD program “insanity” and “alarmingly bad news” as the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ramps up. A Department of Defense weather satellite program that collects ...

On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely complex three-dimensional structure. Being able to peer past the tops of ...

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites, the latest Trump administration move with ...