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The 9WEATHER NOW Hurricane Tracker allows you to follow the path of the most destructive storms on the planet from your computer. The program has tracks of historic storms from both the Atlantic and Pacific basins. Hurricane Isabel in September of 2003 was the worst storm to hit the area since 1933. You can follow the path of Isabel as she traveled from the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. Remember Agnes in 1972? Agnes produced massive flooding in the Metro Area as up to 12 inches of rain fell in a twenty four hour period. This program will allow you to see the path of Agnes from its birth in the Yucatan to its first landfall in the Florida panhandle to its final landfall over the New York City area. Of course, you can also track Katrina, Rita, and the other devastating storms of 2005. You can even compare paths of more than one storm at a time.  

When new storms form, updates will be provided automatically along with instructions. Best of all, it's FREE. 

Tropical Weather

• 9WEATHER NOW Tropics

Local Information

• DC Emergency Management Agency
• Virginia Emergency Management
• Maryland Emergency Management

Special hurricane graphics, photos package

• The package of graphics and photos shows how hurricanes are born and die, how storm surge works, the hurricane categories, and some of what Hurricane Isabel did when it hit the USA in 2003.

Graphics help you understand hurricanes

• The evolution of a hurricane
• What makes a storm a hurricane
• Hurricanes can quickly become monsters
• Slow-moving hurricanes often die
• How hurricanes create storm surge
• Wind rolls create strongest gusts on land
• How wind shear weakens hurricanes

Living with hurricanes

• Hurricane safety guide
• Preparing your home for a hurricane
• How to keep a hurricane from ruining your vacation
• When and where hurricanes hit
• Categories communicate danger

Learning about hurricanes

• NEW - Watch How Hurricanes Destroy
• Hurricane scale communicates danger
• Why, how people fly into hurricanes
• How and why storms are named
• Hurricane, tropical cyclone glossary
• Resources: Hurricane, tropical cyclone history
• Understanding hurricane science, technology
• History of Category 5 hurricanes

Tropical cyclones around the world

Hurricanes and typhoons are both the kind of storm known as a tropical cyclone.

• How tropical cyclones differ from other storms
• When, where tropical cyclones hit
• Eastern Pacific hurricanes
• Hurricanes rarely hit Hawaii
• The world's tropical cyclone forecasting centers

Photo galleries

• Hurricane Isabel in 2003
• A wide-ranging look at hurricanes
• Isidore's romp in 2002
• Flight into Isidore
• NASA: Current, historical hurricane images

Tracking charts you can download and use

• Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean maps: jpg or pdf
• Eastern & Central Pacific map: pdf only