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The National Hurricane Center ( NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA / National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic ...
Preceding Wilma is Hurricane Gilbert, which had also held the record for most intense Atlantic hurricane for 17 years. [62] The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, with a pressure of 892 mbar (hPa; 26.34 inHg), is the third strongest Atlantic hurricane and the strongest documented tropical cyclone prior to 1950. [11]
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record in terms of number of tropical cyclones, although many of them were weak and short-lived. With 21 named storms forming, it became the second season in a row and third overall in which the designated 21-name list of storm names was exhausted.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking an area of low pressure in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The disturbance is expected to form early next week and could become the 2024 Hurricane Season ...
The National Hurricane Center on Sunday night began tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean. Here are the details from the center’s 8 p.m. Monday advisory: Where is the first disturbance?
The National Hurricane Center is tracking several systems in the Atlantic basin, including a new one east of Florida, according to the latest advisory. While environmental conditions are generally ...
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale ( SSHWS) classifies hurricanes —which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms —into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds. This measuring system was formerly known as the Saffir ...
In its 2 p.m. advisory, the NHC puts the center of what has diminished now to barely a Category 3 hurricane about 710 miles south-southeast of San Diego and 350 miles south-southeast of Punta ...