Tropical Weather Forecasting Tools

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.

Tropical Satellite Imagery / Moisture Loops / Wind Shear / SST Anomaly
CIMSS TCs CIMSS MIMIC TPW CIMSS Shear CIMSS - SAL CIMSS Steering Levels
Current Waves/Pouches CIMSS Morphed Microwave Loops NRL Monterey, CA NRL MRY Global
LSU Tropics Vis LSU Color SST LSU Tropics IR LSU East ATL Vis LSU East ATL IR
US-Carib IR (SSEC) US-Carib VIS (SSEC) Tropical RAMSDIS New Japsat MODIS
NOAA Atlantic/Caribbean NASA GOES   Tropical IR Hovmoller
RAMMB Real-Time MODIS Imagery EUMETSATColor Full Disk GOES Floater VIS Loop
Gulf of Mexico High-Res SSTs NRLHigh-Res Gulf/Carib SST Loops AtlanticSST Anomaly
Indian Ocean Satellite Imagery Multi-Platform Satellite SFC Winds Good NWS SST Website
TC Formation Probabilities (Atlantic Basin)    
Trop. Atlantic Shear
Vertical Instability 		Carib Shear
Vertical Instability 		Gulf Shear
Vertical Instability 		East Coast Shear
Vertical Instability 		Subtropical Atlantic Shear
Vertical Instability
Vertical Instability Season Archive
2012 Archive 		   
West Pacific / Australia / Indian Ocean Data
JTWC JMA Australia Bom SFC Maps Australia BoM Cyclones Australia Radar
India Met Office Fiji Meteorological Service Meteo France Reunion Island RSMC Reunion Island Past Australia TC Tracks
West Pac Sat Loop Australia Sat Loop Indian Ocean Sat Loop    

Long-Range Forecast Info/Sites
CPC Ell Niño / La Niña Weekly El Nino Discussion CPC ENSO Home Page Multivariate ENSO Index
JAMSTEC Long-Range El Nino Forecast ENSO Past/Present Weekly Nino SST Values Current AMO Value
MJO Real Time Fcsts. NCEP MJO
Graphics/Forecasts		 CPC MJO
Weekly Update(PPT) 		MJO - Paul Roundy
Wheeler-Hendron RMM1 & RMM2 Values TIGGE MJO Forecasts CurrentNAO NASA - Wave Monitoring
Tropical Cyclone Forecast Models
Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project NCEP HWRF/GFDL FIM Kelvin Waves
ECMWF Ensemble Plots SFWMD Model Plots TC Formation Probabilities Back-Up Probabilities International TCs
FSU Phase Diagrams NCEP Cyclogenesis Tracking NHC Invest Status NHC Model Descriptions SHIPS Model Output
ECMWF 9-Panel Worldwide TC Tracks   NCEP/EMC Cyclogenesis Tracking
Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (eTRaP) RSMAS MM5 FSU Experimental Genesis Forecast
Current and Past Spaghetti Plots from NCAR    
Global Dynamic Models
TropicalTidbits Florida State NCEP Penn State Ewall NAVGEM
ECWMF UK SFC / UK 500mb Canadian ECMWF SFC ECMWF 500mb
  FSU MM5 Ohio State Penn State Australia BOM
Operational Worldwide TC and Extratropical Storm Info
NOAA Dvorak CIMSS Dvorak NOAA Dvorak NRL Monterey, CA ASCAT / ASCAT2 HRD
CSU RAMMB/CIRA -  Wind Radii Graphics NHC Invest Info TC Heat Potential Max Potential Intensity
Wave Track Tropical Wave Tracking JTWC RSMAS TC Heat Potential
experimental) 		MADIS Observations
Extratropical Storm Surge (Met. Dev. Lab) NDBC Buoy Obs AustraliaBOM Weekly Climate Note
Climatological Hurricane Data
Unisys Past Storms HRD Reanalysis Project
(great track maps) 		ICAT Damage Estimator NASA Hurricane Data Portal
(track viewer/image gallery) 		Coastal Services
Dr. Klotzbach Forecasts Historical Satellite Loops TC RadarLoops  (CSU) TC Rainfall Graphics
US Landfalling Hurricane Project
(e-transit.org) 		HRD Re-analysis Project (HURDAT) NOAA/NCDC TC Summaries by Basin NASA Hurricanes
Caribbean/Atlantic Radars
Aruba Barbados Belize
Cuba Curacao Dominican Republic
Guyana Jamaica Martinique
Mexico Panama Trinidad & Tobago
Puerto Rico / US Virgin Islands Bermuda Bahamas
Caribbean Regional Radars (out of Barbados)