Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker

A single source reference on tropical weather predictions. With a traditional focus on the upper Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast we've maintained links to track all Atlantic Basin, Caribbean and eastern Pacific storm systems. We are now expanding our view to tropical storms throughout the world intending to be a comprehensive global storm tracking resource.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

2007 Atlantic Hurricane Names

As the 2007 Hurricane season looms upon us, here are the names for tropical storms and hurricanes for the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. As we discussed last week, Andrea has already visited us starting the season a wee bit early.






Names are chosen in advance by a committee of the World Meteorological Organization, and are recycled every 6 years (except for unusually intense and damaging hurricanes, whose names are then retired).



Each storm name becomes an active link to Weather Street hurricane advisory page as each storm forms.

2010 Atlantic Hurricanes (courtesy of Weatherstreet.com)

NOAA Gulf of Mexico Radar (courtesy of Weatherstreet.com)

NOAA West Atlantic & Caribbean Radar (courtesy of Weatherstreet.com)

NOAA East Atlantic Radar (courtesy of Weatherstreet.com)