ORLANDO, Fla.-– While an active 2020 hurricane season has been predicted by several forecast outlets, early season tropical development is not an indication of an active season to come. But, there's a 60% chance of something developing in the Gulf of Mexico, which could break that record. Only time will tell if this year’s path will be similar. It was Tropical Storm Colin that put that year into the record books. Weather Underground provides information about tropical storms and hurricanes for locations worldwide.

Official NHC Forecast Storm Track. A Managed-Participatory Approach to Community Resiliency A Case Study of New York State’s Response to Extreme Weather Events Simon McDonnell,1 Swati Desai,2 Daniel Berkovits,1 Pooya Ghorbani,2 Maria Jessa Cruz,2 Renata Silberblatt,1 Alexander Breinin,1 and Xavier Williams1 1 Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (New York) 2 Rockefeller Institute of Government, SUNY As storms strike, this interactive map is your guide to impacts and damage reports coming into National Weather Service stations nationwide. A tropical storm is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of at least 34 knots (39 mph or 63 kph). Active Tropical Storms. Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) offers a leading resource for predicting and mapping tropical storm activity worldwide. The latest typhoon watches and warnings for the West Pacific Basin. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a classification used for most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of "tropical depressions" and "tropical storms", and … Beyond 64 knots (74 mph or 119 kph), a tropical storm is called a hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone based on the storm location. This page is updated every 15 minutes with the latest information on active storms and disturbances in all ocean basins from the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast system (ATCF).

Note: while this information is official, it is issued at 6-hourly intervals (0z, 6z, 12z, and 18z) which fall in between the normal NHC full advisory times (3z, 9z, 15z, and 21z).

In fact, across the globe, there are now seven active named storms, which equals the record. NOAA National Hurricane Center Specialists 1950s-2020s Update on National Hurricane Center Products and Services for 2020 For best viewing experience, please enable browser JavaScript/Active Scripting.

Tropical Storm Risk Areas Atlantic low. A history of twisters: Tornadoes in Florida since 1950s This interactive map, which contains data from January 1950, pinpoints where a cyclone touched down and traces its path of destruction. After a sluggish start, the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is heating up. Tropical storms are given official names once they reach these wind speeds. The other recent season was in 2012, when a pair of May tropical storms, Alberto and Beryl, spun up off the Southeast coast in a similar area as this year's Arthur and Bertha. The public TSR web site provides forecasts and information to benefit basic risk awareness and decision making from tropical storms. Learn and revise about weather hazards, how tropical storms form and examine a case study of Hurricane Katerina with BBC Bitesize KS3 Geography.