For up-to-date Storm info: NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center
Historical Hurricane Tracks Web Site

CAPT Randy TeBeest assumes Command of NOAA Aircraft Operations Center
-NOAA News Release
NOAA Corps Capt. Randall J. TeBeest assumed command today of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) in Tampa, Fla. The center is home to most of NOAA’s 11 research aircraft, including the agency’s WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream-IV “hurricane hunter” planes. TeBeest relieves Capt. William B. Kearse, who had served as the center’s commanding officer since July 2009. The July 15 change-of-command ceremony was presided over by Rear Adm. Jonathan Bailey, director of the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and the NOAA Corps...<more>

The Aircraft Operations Center is a Center of the NOAA Marine and Aviation Office. The airplanes of the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) are flown in support of NOAA's mission to promote global environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship of the Earth's environment. NOAA's aircraft operate throughout the United States and around the world; over open oceans, mountains, coastal wetlands, and Arctic pack ice. These versatile aircraft provide scientists with airborne platforms necessary to collect the environmental and geographic data essential to their research.

NOAA demonstrates a challenging and multi-disciplinary approach to meeting the responsibilities as the "Earth Systems Agency." The Aircraft Operations Center provides capable, mission-ready aircraft and professional crews to the scientific community wherever and whenever they are required. Whether studying global climate change or acid rain, assessing marine mammal populations, surveying coastal erosion, investigating oil spills, flight checking aeronautical charts, or improving hurricane prediction models, the AOC flight crews continue to operate in some of the world's most demanding flight regimes.

These links may lead to non-NOAA sites

"Hurricane Hunter" Dazzled Children in Costa Rica
~InsideCostaRica.com, March 16, 2012
As the hurricane season approaches, the Hurricane Hunter by the U.S. Air Force was in Costa Rica for almost 24-hours between Wednesday and Thursday, for education purposes, dazzling school children. <more>

UAVs: The New frontier for Weather Research and Prediction
~Weatherwise Magazine, March-April 2012
In mid-September 2005, just weeks after Hurricane Katrina wreaked destruction on New Orleans, Louisiana and other swaths of the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Ophelia tracked erratically off the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, ultimately driving toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina. <more>

Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program Conducts Research in Alaska Skies; NOAA looks for the next big storm
~KTVA-TV (CBS Anchorage)
The sun rose hazy over the Chugach Mountains Wednesday. Sitting on the tarmac at Ted Stevens International Airport, a G-IV Gulfstream, emblazoned with the U.S. Department of Commerce logo, idled in front of the Great Circle Flight Services hanger, heatwaves from its jet engines shimmers over the runway in the chilly morning air. <more>