Below are links to most of the information needed to understand Tropical Weather formation, tracking and intensity forecasting. These tools are for educational purposes only. For your safety in potentially life threatening situations, you should rely on the USA's National Hurricane Center for track and intensity forecasting of Tropical Cyclones affecting North and Central America.
Satellite Imagery
- NOAA Satellite Services Division
- Tropical RAMSDIS
- RAMSDIS Rapid Scan
- RAMMB Currently Active Cyclones
- NASA GHCC
- Sat24
- LSU Earth Scan Laboratory
- Mauna Kea Weather Center
- GOES Eclipse Schedule
- GOES Project Science
- GOES Realtime
- RAP NCAR (Anti-Eclipse)
- University of Miami
- Western Hemisphere Visible U of Washington
- Penn State University Tropical Imagery
- Plymouth State University
- Weather Channel Imagery
- Colorado State University Imagery
- IbisEye
- Navy Cyclone Imagery
- Navy Atlantic Basin Imagery
- Navy E ATL Imagery
- TRMM
- Precipitable Water Loop
- CloudSat
- MIMIC Microwave Imagery
- OSEI Image of the Day
- African Wave Train Animation
- EUMETSAT African Imagery
Radars
- US NEXRAD
- WUnderground NEXRAD
- Accuweather
- SFWMD Florida Mosaic
- National Mosaic from NWS
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands
- Martinique and Lesser Antilles
- Panama
- Bermuda
Intensity Estimates/Recon
- SSD ADT
- CIMSS ADT
- SATCON Intensity Estimates
- SSD Dvorak Estimates
- Tropical Atlantic Recon Decoder
- Raw Recon Data
- Aircraft Operations Center
- Recon Plan of the Day
- Hurricane Hunters Association
Shear Forecasts
NOAA Analysis
- National Hurricane Center
- Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch
- NOAA's nowCOAST
- NOAA Storm Tracker
- NOAA NCEP Invests
- Tropical Cyclone Formation Probabilities
- NOAA Climate Prediction Center
- CPC MJO Forecast
- Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
- North Atlantic Oscillation
- NWS Storm Prediction Center
Additional Analysis
- Weather Underground
- WunderMap
- FEMA Storm Watch
- CIMSS Tropical Cyclones
- CIMSS Invest and Pouch Tracking
- CIMSS Steering Layers
- Montgomery Research Group Wave Pouches
Tropical Wave Pouch Forecast and Analysis
- Saharan Air Layer Analysis
- FSU cyclone phase diagrams
- Methaz from UCF
- Intellicast
- MJO Forecast
- TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
- Crown Weather
- Storm Pulse
- NCAR Surface Observations
- Atlantic Tropical Weather Center
- Adrian's Weather
- Unisys Weather
- Storm2k
- DuPage Severe Weather Warnings
- World Wide Lightning Location Network
Sea Surface Analysis
- National Data Buoy Center
- Sailwx Ship Weather Reports
- GOMEX Buoy Graphs
- Atlantic Wave Height
- Tidal Heights and Information
- NOAA CFS El Nino Outlook
- CPC El Nino Climatology
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology ENSO + SOI
- PDO Index
- NOAA Ocean Prediction Center
- ASCAT
- QuikSCAT
Meteorology Glossaries
Sea Surface Temperature Imagery
- NOAA AOML TCHP and SST
- TAFB ATL
- NCEP ATL
- NOAA OSDPD
- NOAA OSDPD Anomaly
- Loop Current Forecast Model by WAVCIS
- Reynolds SST Analysis
- Navy NW ATL
- Global SSTs and Anomalies
- SSEC Global
- Unisys Global
- USF MODIS
Computer Models
- An Explanation of Computer Models
- NCEP Model Guidance
- NCEP Tropical Cyclogenesis
- NCEP SHIPS
- ECMWF
- ECMWF Tropical Atlantic 00Z
- ECMWF Tropical Atlantic 12Z
- ECMWF Seasonal Range Forecasts
- NOGAPS
- NOGAPS and GFS by global region
- Environment Canada
- SFWMD Spaghetti Plots
- WeatherOnline Forecasts
- Florida State University Model Page
- FSU COAPS
- FSU Tropical Cyclone Model Output Maps
- Ohio State University Model Page
- Penn State University e-Wall
- PSU Development Favorability
- SUNY Albany Model Page
- SUNY Albany PREDICT Model Data
- NOAA ESRL PSD
- NOAA Wave Forecast
- Skeetobite Weather
- GFS WUnderground
- MIT Model Guidance
- WRF Atlantic
- WRF Caribbean
- JAMSTEC Seasonal Forecast
Tropical Cyclone Climatology