ATLANTIC BASIN VISIBLE

ATLANTIC BASIN INFRARED

ATLANTIC BASIN WATER VAPOR

STORM TRACKS & FORECASTS

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THE 2026 LIST OF ATLANTIC STORM NAMES (with dates of activity & peak intensity):

Arthur (17Jun - 18Jun, 40 kt, 999 mb) Bertha (19Jul - 24Jul, 50 kt, 995 mb) Cristobal (12Aug - 13Aug, 40 kt, 1008 mb) Dolly (27Aug - 28Aug, 35 kt, 1007 mb) Edouard (1Sep - 2Sep, 50 kt, 998 mb) Fay (19Sep - 29Sep, 60 kt, 995 mb) Gonzalo (25Sep - 26Sep, 45 kt, 1000 mb) Hanna (28Sep - 30Sep, 40 kt, 1002 mb) Isaias (6Oct - 10Oct, 105 kt, 959 mb) Josephine (21Oct - 22Oct, 55 kt, 988 mb) Kyle

Leah Marco Nana Omar Paulette Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred

TROPICAL ATLANTIC WEATHER RESOURCES:

• NOAA National Hurricane Center
  • Outlook
  • Discussion
  • Surface analysis
  • SST Analysis
  • SHIPS Model Output
• UM Rosenstiel Hurricane Portal
  • Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Map
  • Caribbean Reference Map
  • Tropical Satellite Sectors
  • TC-ATLAS
  • Ocean Heat Content Time Series
  • Ocean Heat Content
  • Infrared Hovmoller diagram
  • Landfalling TC Radar Archives
• CSU/CIRA Tropical Cyclones
  • TC-Realtime Satellite Data & Model Diagnostics
  • SLIDER Geostationary Satellite Data Viewer
  • Tropical RAMSDIS Online
  • Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability
  • Storm and ACE Climatology
  • Seasonal Forecasts
• US Navy Meteorology
  • Tropical Cyclone Satellite Imagery
  • COAMPS-TC Model Output
  • NAAPS Aerosol Model Output
• CIMSS Tropical Cyclones
  • West Atlantic SHEAR and VORTICITY
  • West Atlantic VIS Floater and IR Floater
  • East Atlantic SHEAR and VORTICITY
  • TPW/V Wave Tracking
  • MIMIC TPW
  • MIMIC TC
  • Real-Time ADT
• Univ at Albany
  • Tropical Cyclone Guidance
  • Velocity Potential Anomalies
• FSU Meteorology
  • Cyclogenesis Model Fields
  • Model Cyclogenesis Probability
  • Cyclone Phase Evolution
  • Track Probability
• Weather Underground
  • Hurricane Data Archive
• NOAA NESDIS & OSPO
  • Satellite Floaters
  • Total Precipitable Water
  • Advected Layered Precipitable Water
  • Ocean Heat Content
  • ASCAT (METOP-B) Ocean Surface Winds
  • ASCAT (METOP-C) Ocean Surface Winds
  • eTRaP Rainfall Maps
  • Total Precipitable Water
• NOAA/EMC
  • Cyclogenesis Tracking
  • EMC Model Viewer
  • HRD's Hurricane Model Viewer
  • GFS-Wave Output
  • RTOFS Output
• ECMWF
  • Tropical cyclone activity
  • TC Strike Probability and Tracks
  • Deterministic forecast products
  • Ensemble forecast products
• NCAR/RAL Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project
• TropicalTidbits Model Products
• WeatherNerds Model Products
• PolarWx Tropical Model Products
• Google Deepmind Weather Lab
• NASA/GHCC GOES Interactive Viewer
• NASA/GMAO GEOS-5 Aerosol Interactive Viewer
• COLA Maximum Potential Intensity
• Tropical Atlantic Aircraft Reconnaissance
• NOAA/NDBC Buoy Observations
• NOAA/CO-OPS Tidal Observations
• SAILWX Ship Observations
• NOAA/CSC Historical Hurricane Tracks
• NOAA/WPC Historical Hurricane Rainfall
• NOAA/AOML Tropical Cyclones FAQ

THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE WIND SCALE:


ACRONYMS & COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS:

• C: Celsius (a commonly used temperature scale, used for describing sea-surface temperature or cloud-top temperature)
• CAT: Category (a number between 1 and 5, this is the category on the Saffir-Simpson Scale assigned to a storm based on its maximum winds)
• CDO: Central Dense Overcast (the high, cold shield of clouds over the center of a cyclone... caused by deep convection)
• IR: Infra-Red (a frequency commonly used in satellite data to help determine cloud-top temperatures... can be used at all times of day)
• ITCZ: Intertropical Convergence Zone (area of enhanced convection encircling the globe where the Northern and Southern Hemisphere tropical winds collide)
• kts: knots (used to describe storm motion and wind speeds... 1 knot equals 1 nautical mile per hour, or 1.15 statute miles per hour)
• mb: millibars (a unit of pressure... 1013 mb is standard sea-level pressure)
• MSLP: Minimum Sea-Level Pressure (the lowest pressure found at the cyclone's center... either by aircraft recon or by satellite estimation techniques)
• NHC: National Hurricane Center (the governing US agency responsible for issuing forecasts, advisories, watches, and warnings for all Atlantic and East Pacific hurricanes)
• PTC: Potential Tropical Cyclone (a disturbance of interest that is expected to develop and could warrant tropical storm storm watches/warnings)
• RMW: Radius of Maximum Winds (distance from the center of circulation where the winds are the greatest... i.e., the eyewall radius)
• SST: Sea-Surface Temperature (the skin temperature of the ocean... found using ships, buoys, and satellites)
• STS: Subtropical Storm (a cyclone with 35kt+ winds, but having both tropical and extratropical characteristics)
• TC: Tropical Cyclone (general term for any warm-core weather disturbance with cyclonic winds)
• TD: Tropical Depression (a low-pressure tropical system with closed circulation and MWS of less than 35 kts)
• TS: Tropical Storm (a low-pressure tropical system with maximum winds between 35-63 kts)
• VIS: Visible (a frequency used in satellite data to view storms during daylight hours... has higher resolution than IR, but only works during daylight hours)
• Z: Zulu (this means Zulu time --or GMT or UTC--... it is placed after a time, like 12Z or 2315Z. During the summer months, EDT is 4 hours behind UTC, CDT is 5 hours behind UTC, etc.)