Track hurricanes and tropical storms

The Hurricanes page follows the tropical storms and hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center is tracking in the Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific. Each storm has its strength, position, movement and forecast cone, and the page adds the Center's 7-day outlooks and the latest tropics news.

#Open the page

Select Hurricanes in the row of Weather pages. When a storm is active, the Weather overview also has a Tropics box that lists it with its winds, and a Hurricane tracker link.

Open Hurricanes

#A storm's box

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• The name and type, such as Tropical Storm or Hurricane, and the ocean basin.
• Category, for a hurricane, from 1 to 5 by its wind speed.
• Maximum winds, in miles per hour and knots (kt), Pressure in millibars (mb), Position in degrees, Moving with its direction and speed, and Updated, how long ago the figures were issued.
• The forecast cone, the National Hurricane Center's map. The cone shows where the center of the storm will probably go, not how big the storm is: its effects can reach well outside the cone.
• Links to the Center's Public advisory, Forecast discussion and All graphics, which open on its site.

The category follows the usual hurricane wind scale:

#Outlooks and news

Under the storms, three maps show the National Hurricane Center's 7-day outlook for the Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific and the Central Pacific: the areas it is watching for a storm to form over the next seven days. Tropics news lists recent headlines about tropical weather, with a link to more.

When no storm is active, the page says there are no active tropical cyclones in those waters, and still shows the outlooks.