# How to track the next hurricane?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843 "2005-10-05T04:28:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843/1 "2005-10-05T04:28:55Z")

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What’s the best source for finding out about upcoming hurricanes in detail? A weather center, NASA, etc… obviously, I’m talking about something online. 😉 I’m having trouble finding one, and I can’t believe there ISN’T one.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843/2 "2005-10-05T04:36:09Z")

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[www.noaa.gov](http://www.noaa.gov) There’s a link to the hurricane center on the front page.

There’s nothing out there right now besides TD Stan at the moment.

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843/3 "2005-10-05T04:36:13Z")

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> **[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration](https://www.noaa.gov/)**
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> U.S. Department of Commerce

Follow the links.

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**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843/4 "2005-10-05T14:16:54Z")

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Thanks, y’all!  
And now there’s Tammy, too… personally, I think it was plain laziness that led them to ignore X,Y, and Z names. Don’t they have a baby name book?!? 😉

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-track-the-next-hurricane/324843/5 "2005-10-05T14:18:39Z")

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I prefer [http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/](http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/)  
they seem to have the tracking maps created before noaa, somehow. I guess the data is out there for a bit before noaa makes their maps.