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Jason Dunion to receive American Meteorological Society Special Award as part of the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones Group

The Tropical Cyclones Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), including Jason Dunion, has been selected for an American Meteorological Society (AMS) Special Award.  The award recognizes individuals or groups that have made important contributions in the field of meteorology or toward meteorological aspects of oceanography or hydrology.  The AMS cited […]

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Neal Dorst is NOAA’s Employee of the Month for October

Congratulations to Neal Dorst for being named NOAA’s Employee of the Month for October!  Neal serves crucial roles as HRD’s historian and webmaster and has been their data manager, tape librarian, and archivist for all analog, digital, and film data from the early beginnings of the “U. S. Weather Bureau” hurricane flights in 1956 to the […]

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Hurricane Field Program Update – Sunday, October 05, 2014 11AM Eastern

OPERATIONS Sunday, 05 October, 2014 NOAA43:  Will obtain the 1730 UTC center fix of Hurricane Simon during an operationally tasked reconnaissance mission.  Takeoff is scheduled for 1545 UTC from La Paz with recovery there about 8 h later. Monday, 06 October, 2014 No operational flights are scheduled.  ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest information about tropical cyclones and other […]

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50th Anniversary of Hurricane Hilda

On the night of October 3, 1964, Hurricane Hilda brought high winds, heavy rain, and tornadoes to the central Louisiana coast.  The storm had made steady progress out of the Gulf of America, but had thankfully diminished from its peak intensity by landfall.  Nevertheless, it brought destruction and flooding to the southern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. […]

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