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Newest hurricane track1/10/2023 ![]() Humberto Hanna Henri Hermine Harvey Heleneġ0. Gabrielle Gustav Grace Gaston Gert GordonĨ. Felix Fay Fabian Frances Franklin Florenceħ. Chantal Cristobal Claudette Charley Cindy ChrisĤ. It's likely that 1998 storms Georges and Mitch will become 'classics' as well. Luis has been replaced by Lorenzo and Andrew by Alex. However, often the names of some famous hurricanes have been dropped and replaced with something else. So the list of names for 1996 will be used again in 2002. This because hurricane names are recycled every 6 years. Wondering when they are going to use your name for a tropical system? If they haven't used it in the last 6 years, the chance is pretty small that they ever will. These brave guys fly right into the eye of a hurricane to get the valuable data for hurricane forecasting! It is written by Martha Watkins Gilkes, and was published in the LIAT Islander Inflight Magazine. This page should give you the answers to these questions, and more.Īlso, don't miss the feature about the Hurricane Hunters. Very annoying when you are tracking and plotting Hurricane Edouard, Fran, Hortense or whoever. These facts are so trivial, but sometimes so hard to find. When is a tropical system a tropical storm and when becomes it a Category 3 hurricane? Will my mobile home survive this storm? When are they going to use your name for a Hurricane? Who came up with the titles of the National Hurricane Advisories WTNT32.KNHC, MIASPFAT3, what do they mean? And then you've been looking at the strike probabilities of the storm, but the advisories are using those strange abbreviations, which island is TDPR or what's the code for St.Martin? Not sure about how many nautical miles are in a kilometer? Or how knots relate to miles per hour? And how can I calculate without too much work how far a storm is located from the Caribbean Islands. Tracking and plotting the coordinates of the current position and its forecast of hurricanes is fun (as long as the eye stays away.)! But sometimes confusing! Those advisories from the National Hurricane Center use all those different units knots, kilometers, miles, nautical miles, etc. (both stories courtesy of THE LIAT ISLANDER MAGAZINE - the inflight magazine of LIAT - The Caribbean Airline) The Hurricane Hunters (published June 1996).Wild is the Wind (published August 2002).Flying into the eye of a Category 4 Hurricane (published in 2004, LIAT Islander Magazine).Special Hurricane Hunters Features by Martha Watkins Gilkes:.In case of emergency: the Amateur Radio Operators are standing by.Saffir Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale.Current Weather Conditions on the Islands. ![]() ![]() Island Abbreviations (Station Identifiers) in Strike Probability Advisories.How to read Marine Advisories and Reconnaisance Reports.Logic of National Hurricane Center Advisories Titles.Unit Conversion/Easy Distance Determinations.How close is it? and How close can it get?.Your source for the best Caribbean vacation you've ever had! -Ī practical guide to hurricane tracking and plotting Join our team of special local hurricane correspondents.īrought to you by GoBeach Vacations ( ) Comments can be addressed to Gert van Dijken, site maintainer. Reliable reports from the people who are in the middle of it all! For the latest advisories and satellite images see our Quick Hurricane Web Resource Locator, which will help you find the least overloaded web-server. Our special local hurricane correspondents report from the Caribbean Islands about the situation with regards to threatening tropical systems. Somewhere else on our website we have information available on the current situation in the Caribbean. Here you may find the answer to a lot of your trivial (but oh so frustrating when you can't find the answer) questions. Welcome to the practical guide to hurricane plotting and tracking, filled with tid-bits and other miscellaneous information. | home | satellite | satellite | tools | pleas for help | guide | climatology | archive | A practical guide to hurricane tracking and plotting - The Caribbean Hurricane NetworkĪ Practical Guide to hurricane tracking and plotting
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