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Scientists have lost access to a major forecasting tool as what could be a very busy hurricane season gets underway

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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the past four years, a fleet of drone vessels has purposefully steered into the heart of hurricanes to gather information on a storm’s wind speeds, wave heights and, critically, the complex transfer of heat and moisture between the ocean and the air right above it. These small boats from California-based company Saildrone also film harrowing footage from the ocean surface in the middle of nature’s most powerfu…

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Scientists have lost access to a major forecasting tool as what could be a very busy hurricane season gets underway

With drone vessels missing in action this hurricane season, meteorologists will lack continuous, direct observations of hurricanes’ strongest winds near the surface of the ocean and temperatures of the warm water that fuels the storms.

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Just as the 2025 hurricane season begins, federal scientists have lost access to one of their most valuable forecasting tools—Saildrones. These small, uncrewed ocean vessels captured real-time data from inside hurricanes, helping improve predictions and even providing gripping videos that warned people how serious storms were. For the past four years, Saildrones were deployed by NOAA to collect critical data like surface wind speeds and water te…

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