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DO NOT use the information on this page for life and death decisions. These pages are provided only as an information resource and are in no way meant to convey official storm information. Go to the NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER for all official storm information for the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins.
Links in green are pages or products that I have created and maintain.
WMO Severe
Weather Information Centre Use this site to get
official warning information for any storm in the world
List of all the RSMCs and Map of Their Areas of Responsibility
Tropical Text Products from the National Weather Service
Digital Typhoon This is an interesting site for current and historic satellite info - utilizes visual and graphical data mining
QuikSCAT and SeaWinds Ocean Surface Wind Speeds (the 'manati' page)
Interactive Weather Satellite Imagery Viewers from NASA GHCC
MESO Tropics Page
nice "catch-all" site with tropical updates by Brian McNoldy
Tropical Sectors
(SST, satellite loops,
surface winds and vorticity)
SERVIR - The Mesoamerican Regional Visualization and Monitoring System
Sea Surface Temperatures
Analyzed Operational SST Fields from NOAA/NESDIS (derived from
satellite)
Contoured Fields
Anomalies
Ocean Heat Potential
Maximum Potential Intensity Maximum
Potential Hurricane Intensity - uses the Kerry Emanuel
method, hosted at Center for
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Current and archived (up to 30 days) METAR surface observations from uswx.com
NHC/TPC Aircraft Reconnaissance Page Most recent vortex message
NHC's Recon Archive (http version) - messages are sorted by storm, 1989 - last year
NHC's Recon Archive (ftp version) - messages are sorted by time, 2001 - current year
My mirror of the NHC recon archive By using this mirror of NHC's recon archive, you can spare their server during busy times. My mirror updates every half hour.
All vortex messages for a specific storm I have created a script which automatically collects all the vortex messages for a given storm and puts them in one file
Eye to Eye
Photo galleries of some of the storms flown by the
Hurricane Hunters
Jonathan Vigh's Model Guidance Page (CSU) Plots of the numerical model guidance: track and intensity for storms in the Atlantic and Pacific
Model Guidance Plots from the South Florida Water Management District
Model Guidance from the NWS Southern Regional Headquarters Interactive tracker for Atlantic TCs, archive for 2005-2006
Experimental forecast Tropical Cyclone Genesis Potential Fields from Florida State University (old site from Penn State is here)
Output from the Kilo-Ensemble (2001 - 2003)
This was an outcome of my Masters research at CSU
Seasonal Forecast of Atlantic Hurricane Activity from Dr. William Gray's Tropical Meteorology Team
Atlantic Hurricane Potential Monitoring an excellent site for monitoring current trends in the Atlantic -- from the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Monthly/Seasonal Climate Composites from the Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA)
Time Series Plots of Climate Variables from the Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA)
Experimental Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product from CIRA Genesis Climatology
Probability of a Tropical Cyclone Forming on any Given Day in the Next Two Weeks Experimental research product based on analysis and analysis of forecasts of equatorial waves - produced by Paul Roundy, University of Albany
Historical Track Maps and Climatology
Unisys Tropical Cyclone Tracks Historical
tracks for tropical cyclones worldwide
Historical
Hurricane Tracks from the NOAA Coastal Services Center
United States
Landfalling Hurricane Probability Project an
interactive GIS-landfall page by Phillip Klotzbach
Atlantic Basin Climatology
Find out the probability of getting a named storm, hurricane, or intense
hurricane near your location
Estimated Hurricane Return Periods Find out how
often, on average, a given location can expect to be hit by hurricanes
of various strengths
National Climate Data Center's Worldwide TC Monitoring Summaries and
basin statistics for recent TC's in the various basins around the
world Historical TC Best Tracks
Australia (scroll down to other sources of data and
information)
Graphical
browser of past storms
Famous or Notable Landfalling Storms
Hurricane
History A page on famous hurricanes from the National
Hurricane Center's preparedness web site
Summaries of Notable Hurricanes from the
National Climatic Data Center
Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data
Excellent resource showing the rainfall history of many U.S.
landfallling hurricanes and tropical storms
Lists of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls, ranked by
intensity
Chronological List of all U.S. Hurricane Landfalls (1851 - 2005)
maintained by Dr. Chris Landsea (NHC/HRD)
United
States Major Hurricane Landfalls, ranked by Minimum Sea Level
Pressure (MSLP) (coming
soon)
Jonathan Vigh's Portal to Most Intense Tropical Cyclones by Basin,
ranked by MSLP
North Atlantic -
All Recorded Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes (1851 - Current)
UPDATED 09/04/07 to add Hurricane Felix
Eastern North Pacific - All Recorded Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes
(1945 - Current)
(coming
soon)
Wikipedia's List of Most Intense Storms on Record (Globally)
Wikipedia's List of All Category 5 Atlantic Hurricanes (sorted chronologically, by date in season, and by minimum central pressure)
Wikipedia's List of All Category 5 Eastern and Central Pacific Hurricanes
HRD's list of all North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes, ranked by windspeed last updated in 2003
HRD's list of all Eastern North Pacfic tropical storms and hurricanes, ranked by windspeed last updated in 2003
Wikipedia Tropical Cyclone Portal This online encyclopedia is maintained by an enthusiastic user community and contains many articles about tropical cyclones and current and past storms.
NTC Calculator Calculate 'net tropical cyclone' activity, and compare to past seasons -- from Brian McNoldy's site
Tropical Cyclone FAQ Extremely useful, informative, and expansive FAQ on hurricanes and tropical storms
Hurricane satellite movies Some cool '3D' movies of hurricanes
Story of a penetration into the eye of Hurricane Hugo This is certainly one of the most harrowing flights ever made into a hurricane
Global Guide to Tropical Cyclone Forecasting A technical resource on TC forecasting, provided online at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
WMO Tropical
Cyclone Programme Homepage The United Nations
World Meteorological Programme's effort for the global tropical cyclone
problem
Hurricane Watch Net An amateur radio net to facilitate communications into and out of hurricane-affected areas
The National Hurricane Center's Preparedness Web Page
Extremely useful and informative -- several pages from this site are linked
below since they are so useful
High Wind Risk Areas Find out
how far inland the winds are likely to penetrate
Track and Intensity Errors This page explains the
size of the average track and intensity error and how this uncertainty
relates to size of warning areas
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
Find out the difference between a Category 1 storm and a Category 5
storm
Interactive SSHS from the Associated Press
Coastal Risk
Atlas
From the NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center
I closely follow the Atlantic hurricane seasons, and to some extent tropical cyclones worldwide. For storms which end up having a large U.S. impact, I may write up a summary of the impacts or archive some of the raw surface obs. Or I may just provide some links to other interesting content specific to that storm such as satellite loops, radar loops, etc. The National Hurricane Center writes up excellent post-season storm summaries and a community-led encyclopedia called Wikipedia often has a treasure trove of interesting information about various storms.
Hurricanes of 2004 Summary Page
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