Welcome to Category 6. This is the collective home for Weather Underground's featured writeups by Dr. Jeff Masters (right), Bob Henson (left), Chris Burt, and other regular contributors.
Hurricane and Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Weather Discussion
Statement as of 8:00 PM HST on November 30, 2018
For the central North Pacific...between 140w and 180w:No tropical cyclones are expected during the next 5 days.This is the last regularly scheduled tropical weather outlook of the 2018 central North Pacific hurricane season. Routine issuance of the tropical weather outlook will resume on June 1, 2019. During the off-season, special tropical weather outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.$$ Forecaster jelsema
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Hurricane Archive
All Atlantic Storms (1851-2019)
Named Storms for 2016
Historical Hurricane Statistics
- Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE)
- 10 Costliest U.S. Weather Disasters since 1980
- 30 Deadliest Tropical Cyclones in History
- 30 Deadliest Atlantic Hurricanes
- 30 Deadliest U.S. Hurricanes
- 30 Costliest U.S. Hurricanes
- Top 10 Most Active Hurricane Seasons
- The 12 Major May-June-July Hurricanes
- The 12 Latest-season Major Hurricanes
- The 20 deadliest late-season Atlantic hurricanes
- 2005 Hurricane Season Records
- Hurricane Katrina Information Archive
- Retired Hurricane Names
Articles of Interest
- Hunting Hugo: The Hurricane Hunters' Wildest Ride
- The six hurricane/typhoon hunter missions that never returned to base
- A new world record wind gust: 253 mph in Australia's Tropical Cyclone Olivia
- Wind shear tutorial
- Subtropical storm tutorial
- African dust tutorial
- Gulf of Mexico ocean heat tutorial
- African wave tutorial
- Modiki El Niños and Atlantic hurricane activity
- The case for a new QuikSCAT satellite
- Bill Gates takes on hurricanes
- Is the Atlantic hurricane season getting longer?
- Late-starting hurricane seasons
- Looking back at Hurricane Gustav's record 211 mph wind gust
- Remembering Hurricane Hugo 20 years later
- Haiti's tragic hurricane history
- Global warming and the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes: model results
- Complete subject list of Dr. Jeff Masters' blogs on hurricanes