Tropical storm & hurricane model forecasts for the Atlantic & East/Central N. Pacific by
@ClarkEvansWx
. See our website for more! Not affiliated with NHC/NOAA.
The Atlantic and E/C Pacific hurricane seasons end tomorrow evening. Thank you, everyone, for your patronage through our 11th(!) season in operation. We hope that our products have been valuable this year, and we'll keep working on ways to improve their utility for all.
UWM is currently upgrading the supercomputing hardware that supports the model plots. While the website remains available, plots will not update until the upgrade is done. We expect everything to return to service on Thursday or Friday. We apologize for the downtime with
#Lee
!
As you may have noticed, our tweets now include the track plots & intensity traces! We hope this helps with sharing them with others.
Of course, you’ll still want to visit our website for even more: late/ensemble plots, KML & shapefiles, and forecast verification, among others!
Update: barring the most hyperactive of hurricane seasons, we believe that we will be able to abide by the Twitter API’s free tier and thus do not expect this service to end. Fingers crossed. Thank you for your patronage as the site enters its 17th season!
If this change affects the open-source tools we use, we'll unfortunately have to discontinue our service. We simply don't have the discretionary financial resources needed to pay for access. Since the site is university-based, it's also not straightforward to enable donations.
After a long seven days, the supercomputer upgrade at UWM is nearing its completion. We've been able to add some information to the webpage, and we're hoping to be able to restart everything in the next day or two. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Today ends the Atlantic and E/C Pacific hurricane seasons. Thank you for your patronage for another year - our twelfth on the web! We’ll be working on the site’s back-end this offseason. Otherwise, here’s to a safe rest of 2018, and a quiet landfall season to come in 2019!
A new website design launched today! The site is now fully responsive for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. There's even a preview of a new product to come in 2023...
The Atlantic and eastern North Pacific hurricane seasons ended for another year earlier this week. Thank you for your patronage this year, our 17th in business, despite a few rough patches along the way. We wish you and yours a happy and healthy rest of 2023 and into 2024!
We’re back! Sort of…the image generation code is working but the part that updates the website itself isn’t quite there yet. Hope we can address that tonight! Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The Monday morning model suite will not run due to a supercomputer outage. We expect this outage to be resolved before the early-afternoon suite runs. We apologize for the inconvenience.
After digging, the site's long-standing Twitter integration is permanently broken thanks to Twitter's API changes.
Fortunately, Twitter integration works for the backend rewrite we've been working on, though we're still debugging some issues. It'll hopefully go live soon!
We sadly don’t have access to update the website while the back-end is down. It’s currently looking like a Friday rather than Thursday (today) return to service. We appreciate your patience and sincerely apologize for the downtime.
UWM is currently upgrading the supercomputing hardware that supports the model plots. While the website remains available, plots will not update until the upgrade is done. We expect everything to return to service on Thursday or Friday. We apologize for the downtime with
#Lee
!
Our processed “early” model tracks for Hurricane
#Ian
are currently available from the
@nytimes
“Tracking Ian” page. We’ve curated these tracks so that only the most-reliable models are included. You’ll also find official NHC information on their page:
Of course, nothing will change here on Twitter should these tools be unaffected. Plus, the website () will continue to be updated as it has for the last sixteen years. Thank you for your patronage and understanding, and here's hoping for the best! 🤞
We're planning a major overhaul of the site's back end for the 2023 season. This will include new functionality, with details to come soon!
We're considering deprecating the analog plots, however. If you still use these, please reply to this message by early December. Thanks!
If this change affects the open-source tools we use, we'll unfortunately have to discontinue our service. We simply don't have the discretionary financial resources needed to pay for access. Since the site is university-based, it's also not straightforward to enable donations.
Model plots are currently not updating due to an upstream data issue with the tcvitals files that our workflow uses to determine active storms. We apologize for the inconvenience.