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Hurricane Emily off Cape Hatteras, NC.


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Zeta: got to get a bigger gun, 'cause this season ain't done yet...

Current Atlantic Hurricane Information
Public Forecast & Advisory
Marine Forecast & Advisory
Intergovernmental Storm discussion
Storm Strike Probabilities
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Current GOES 8 Atlantic Visible Image (NOAA)

Current GOES 8 Atlantic Water Vapor Channel Image (NOAA)

Current GOES 8 & 10 Full Disk and Composite Images (NOAA)

Current METEOSAT (E. Atlantic, Africa) Images (NOAA)

Satellite shot of the Atlantic from Africa to Texas from Intellicast.


2005 Storm Names

Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, Katrina, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Espilon,


2004 Storm Names

Alex, Bonnie, Charley, Danielle, Earl, Frances, Gaston, Hermine, Ivan, Ivan II, Jeanne, Karl, Lisa, Matthew, Nicole, Otto, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tomas, Virginie, Walter


2003 Storm Names

Ana, Bill, Claudette, Danny, Erika, Fabian, Grace, Henri, Isabel, Juan, Kate, Larry, Mindy, Nicholas, Odette, Peter, Rose, Sam, Teresa, Victor, Wanda


2002 Storm Names

Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Isidore, Josephine , Kyle, Lili, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, Wilfred


2001 Storm Names

Allison, Barry, Chantal, Dean, Erin, Felix, Gabrielle, Humberto, Iris, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Michelle, Noel, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah,Sebastien, Tanya, Van, Wendy


2000 Storm Names

Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Keith, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, William


2006 Storm Names

Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, William


Interested in the historical hurricane tracks? Courtesy of NHC, Dr. Chris Landsea, and Unisys Weather server.

Atlantic Tropical Weather. That is to say hurricanes (65+ kts), tropical storms (35-64kts), and tropical depressions (20-34 kts and one closed isobar), and easterly waves. Data here is courtesy of Florida State's Meteorology Department, Ohio State's Atmospheric Sciences , and the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

To understand how to decode the Recon Reports, a report by Mike MacDonald.

Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Information
Discussion Recon DataNHC Forecasts (NHC)
Tropical weather outlook Coded Recon message Public Forecast & Advisory
Tropical weather discussion Coded Recon message Marine Forecast & Advisory
Gulf of Mexico Detailed Vortex message Intergovernmental Storm discussion
Caribbean Surface Obs Supplemental Vortex message Storm Strike Probabilities

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Strength Scale
Attribute:Cat 1 Cat 2Cat 3 Cat 4Cat 5
Wind Speed [kts] 65-82 83-95 96-113 114-135 >135
Pressure [mb] >980 965-979 945-964 920-944 <919
Layman's terms A good blow... Tough storm Nothing to be triffled with... Let's see, I've packed the essentials... Near landfall? Too bad.


Tallahasee's take on the 1995 hurricane season (Tallahassee Democrat/Clay Bennett). The needle is over "Run". We think there should be another entry after that labled "Pray".


1995: Movies of Erin making two landfalls in Florida. Images taken from University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center, and converted into an SGI movie.

Visible Movie (914 Kb), IR Movie (1639 Kb) and Water Vapour Movie (1774 Kb).


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