Climate and Meteorology

Neil Frank, who directed the National Hurricane Center from 1974 to 1987 and is credited with transforming how the U.S. communicates hurricane risks to emergency managers and the public, died Wednesday at age 94 after entering hospice care, his son said. Frank, the center’s longest‑serving director, helped leverage emerging satellite technology to improve storm forecasts, regularly appeared on television to explain threats and safety steps, and later spent two decades as KHOU‑TV’s chief meteorologist in Houston, even as he publicly questioned mainstream scientific consensus on human‑driven climate change.