Tropical Storms are the most devasting weather phaenomen.
Depending on their location and strength, there are various terms by which tropical cyclones are known, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm and tropical depression.
Interactive resources for educational purposes, with current situation and forecasts.
- Sea Surface Temperature and active Systems
- Situation North Atlantic
- Timeline of Tropical Storms (2005+)
- Current Bulletins for North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
- The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Mapped Storm tracks
- Mapped Wind Directions
- North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes, 1851-2004
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Tracks of nearly 150 years of tropical cyclones weave across the globe in this map.
The map is based on all storm tracks available from the National Hurricane Center
and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center through September 2006.
The accumulation of tracks reveals several details of hurricane climatology,
such as where the most severe storms form and the large-scale atmospheric patterns
that influence the track of hurricanes.
Image credit: GlobalWarmingArt.com
