Hurricane Information Links Round-Up

A handful of pointers and commentary from The Resident Biologist:

• National Hurricane Center for general storm tracking.  Has regular  updates when there is an active storm or likely-to-form storm being tracked.   https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
• Tropical Tidbits: a meteorologist's blog & vlog which posts about a video a day when there is an active storm.  Usually has a particularly good breakdown of what is likely to steer a hurricane.  https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/
• Weather Underground hurricane page for access to the individual computer models used in hurricane forecasts.  Gives a general idea of where different groups think a storm is likely to go base on the different models rather than the combined NHC forecast.  See attached image (way down at the bottom of this post) for the location of the links to the models on an active storm.  https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane
• Ocean Heat Content: from NOAA for how warm water is at depth for an idea of how much energy is stored there when there is an approaching storm.  In particular, it shows how active the warm water conveyor between the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico is from the western tip of Cuba to just off the tip of Louisiana.  https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/ohc/
• Surface Temperature Contour Charts: from NOAA for the ocean surface temperature of general areas.  https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/
• National Data Buoy Center for offshore weather conditions.  Has a very useful map to access other buoy data sets, but not all buoys are always fully operational.  https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42036
• GOES Image Viewer for up to date satellite weather data.  Click on the map or use the bar of operations on the left side to select the region you want.  Will have a special selection near the top of the option bar when there is an active storm.  On the following page after the selection are all the different image/water vapor/temperature maps.  https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/

Whew, that is a lot, but keeping an eye on the tropics is a lot.  Good luck with the rest of the season.