Storm and hurricane tracker
Every active hurricane, tropical storm and typhoon on one map, with the official forecast track and cone where there is one. Tap a storm for its strength, its path and what to do.
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Tap a storm on the map or in the list for its details.
If a storm is heading your way
- Follow your local emergency officials and the National Hurricane Center or your national weather service. If you are told to leave, leave.
- Know whether you live in an evacuation zone, and where you would go.
- Have water, food, medicines, a torch, batteries and copies of important papers ready for at least three days.
- Charge your phone, bring in or tie down anything outside that wind could throw, and never drive through flood water.
Advice: Ready.gov (US government).
Questions people ask
What is the cone?
The National Hurricane Center's "cone of uncertainty" shows where the centre of the storm will probably be over the next five days. The centre stays inside the cone about two thirds of the time. Wind, rain and storm surge can reach far outside it.
What do the hurricane categories mean?
The Saffir-Simpson scale ranks hurricanes by their strongest sustained winds: Category 1 starts at 74 mph, Category 3 at 111 mph (a "major" hurricane) and Category 5 at 157 mph. Flooding from rain and storm surge often does the most harm, whatever the category.
How often is this updated?
The National Hurricane Center issues full advisories every six hours (more often when a storm nears land). Sureno checks for new ones every 20 minutes.
Data: NOAA National Hurricane Center (forecast tracks and cones) and NASA EONET (other oceans), both public domain. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).