Hurricane Tracking Resources

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Some links to various Internet Hurricane Information have been gathered here for your convenience. Please refer to the actual websites for instructions and limitations.


National Hurricane Center (Primary Site)

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/


NHC Tracking Map For ONE System (see the link above for the rest, if any):

Full size at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...tml?5day?large

NHC Public Advisory:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh.../082034.shtml?

NHC Discussion:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh.../082036.shtml?

Sat. Color Enhanced Image Loop:

http://weather.sun-sentinel.com/glob...Satellite.html

NWS Weather Radar For Florida:

http://nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kmlb.shtml

Weatherunderground Tropical weather page AND tracking model map: hit "Models" for the storm you are interested in.

http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/

NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division Tropical Cyclone Page:

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html
Hit the storm you are interested in on the upper left.

NOAA Frontal Weather Maps

http://nws.noaa.gov/outlook_tab.php


NHC Cummulative Wind Distribution:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Under "Maps and Charts" for the storm you are interested in.

ikitesurf Realtime Winds

http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwher...1&timeoffset=0


A good tropical weather summary site with a lot of imagery (Thanks Felipe!)
http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html

News updates out of SE Florida:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane
News updates out of NW Florida:
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/....dll/frontpage
News updates out of Central Florida:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/weather/
News updates out of NE Florida:
http://jacksonville.com/weather/
News updates out of SW Florida:
http://www.naplesnews.com/


General Hurricane References

Hurricane Preparation:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/hurricane.html
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/hurricanes/
http://www.disastercenter.com/guide/hurricane.html
http://www.floridadisaster.org

Good luck to everyone through this hurricane season. Plan well and prepare early.

Man o man. Rick, you should get paid as the "ultimate resource guy" for kiting and related topics. I can't even keep track of where my socks are.

Thanks for all the links.

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Originally Posted by Skyway Scott

Man o man. Rick, you should get paid as the "ultimate resource guy" for kiting and related topics. I can't even keep track of where my socks are.

Thanks for all the links.

I used to go through a lot of these when hurricanes were threatening. It was a bit of a pain searching around for the links. Also, in 2004 around the time of Surf Expo a lot of guys from Europe were wondering what was going on and what might happen. So, I put the laundry list together at that time. Imagine crossing an ocean to who knows what? It helps to have something aside from all the hype the media tosses out.

After last season, being the major pain in the butt that it was, I didn't quite know what to do with the list. So, I buried it in the wx forum. Early this morning it looked like Ernesto shifted sights to Florida, so it seemed like a good idea to bring it back up.

Good luck!