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Our site's features include a reconnaissance decoder for hurricane hunter aicraft with a live tracking system for Google Earth, hurricane models in Google Maps and Earth, a customizeable satellite page, decoded recon archive, model archive, distance calculator, satellite image overlays for Google Earth, media files from the NOAA-AOC, and various links to hurricane related content.
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The National Hurricane Center is the official hurricane forecast center for the Atlantic basin. If you visit one site, their site is the place to go to get the latest official information. When a tropical feature has reached depression status, the front page will feature what you need to look at. Take a look at the "Public Advisory" which will appear on the front page under the heading of the tropical feature for easy to understand language. The site also features the forecast track for the storm.
Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) Monterey Marine Meteorology Division: Tropical Cyclone Page

This is an excellent resource. It provides wonderful visible satellite images of current cyclones and developing disturbances. It has an incredible amount of other data. This is usually the first site you will want to visit to see if a storm is developing. Under the "Atlantic" heading in the left column, you will see something like "90L.INVEST," which is an area of disturbed weather that is being monitored. This is not something the NHC would be issuing advisories on, though you may see the area talked about in the "Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook" on the NHC's site. The NRL site, often referenced as the "Navy site," will usually have these areas of investigation listed before any other site. They do not always develop. When a storm reaches depression status, then advisories will be written on the NHC's site. These areas of disturbed weather are numbered 90 through 99. When the number 99 is reached, we go back to 90.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison (CIMSS)
Colorado State University (CIRA / NOAA NESDIS)


Storm Names
About Storm Names
2012
Alberto
Beryl
Chris
Debby
Ernesto
Florence
Gordon
Helene
Isaac
Joyce
Kirk
Leslie
Michael
Nadine
Oscar
Patty
Rafael
Sandy
Tony
Valerie
William
2011
Advisory Archive
Tropical Cyclone Reports
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Don
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katia
Unnamed *
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rina
Sean

* Unnamed Tropical Storm
Tropical Cyclone Report (pdf)
If we ever run out of names again, like in 2005, we begin to use the Greek alphabet.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma...