Welcome to Category 6. This is the collective home for Weather Underground's featured writeups by Dr. Jeff Masters (right), Bob Henson (left), Chris Burt, and other regular contributors.
Hurricane and Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Weather Discussion
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- Retired Hurricane Names
Articles of Interest
- Hunting Hugo: The Hurricane Hunters' Wildest Ride
- The six hurricane/typhoon hunter missions that never returned to base
- A new world record wind gust: 253 mph in Australia's Tropical Cyclone Olivia
- Wind shear tutorial
- Subtropical storm tutorial
- African dust tutorial
- Gulf of Mexico ocean heat tutorial
- African wave tutorial
- Modiki El Niños and Atlantic hurricane activity
- The case for a new QuikSCAT satellite
- Bill Gates takes on hurricanes
- Is the Atlantic hurricane season getting longer?
- Late-starting hurricane seasons
- Looking back at Hurricane Gustav's record 211 mph wind gust
- Remembering Hurricane Hugo 20 years later
- Haiti's tragic hurricane history
- Global warming and the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes: model results
- Complete subject list of Dr. Jeff Masters' blogs on hurricanes