STORM2K

I know it's been posted before, but we have so many new posters that I feel a refresh is on order.

The following website is the official center for global advisories on tropical cyclones -- straight from the RSMCs worldwide to the WMO.

http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/


Use it... abuse it... tell your parents about it...

Thanks! Great link to have.

senorpepr wrote:

Use it... abuse it... tell your parents about it...

Thanks senor.

coolage .. thanks!

You forgot the TCWCs Senor. (Unless you want the Australians, Papua New Guineaians, and New Zealanders after you...)

As I said to you last night you can track all TCs just using that page which makes it the only link you really need. Oh and there are sound files for most NW Pacific names which is helpful, as well as classification scales for each basin.

P.K. wrote:You forgot the TCWCs Senor. (Unless you want the Australians, Papua New Guineaians, and New Zealanders after you...)

As I said to you last night you can track all TCs just using that page which makes it the only link you really need. Oh and there are sound files for most NW Pacific names which is helpful, as well as classification scales for each basin.

Right, ...and TCWCs too!

I wouldn't want them Southerners after me for excluding them!



As P.K. said... this site is truly all you need when it somes for advisories.

Plus, I know many of you (including myself) have a hard time remembering those other classification scales or pronouncing those foreign names.

One thing to point out... since the rest of the world using the WMO-standard 10-minute average wind speed... not the US-standard 1-minute average... you will have to convert.

A good approximation is 1-min = 10-min x 1.14

Therefore, if the official advisory from JMA says 100KT, that would be roughly 114KT by the US standard.

Or if you follow the BoMs advice the conversion is 0.871, or 1.148 if people get confused that I convert slightly differently to others.

Oh and there is a great table on the BoMs site comparing all scales, although its only approximate. Also note that for the RSMC New Delhi names it should say Depression and then Deep Depression, not sure where this Severe Depression name has come from. http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/warnings/WarningsInformation_TC_Ed.shtml

P.K. wrote:Or if you follow the BoMs advice the conversion is 0.871, or 1.148 if people get confused that I convert slightly differently to others.

i.e.

1min * .871 = 10min

10min * 1.148 = 1min

I always have to sit down and think about which way I'm going, and therefore should I use the big number or small number? This should make it easier for people who find it easier if something is written out like this

Abuse it huh, No problem

I just worked out that to compare to the other approximation.

Ten minute to one minute: Divide by 0.871
One minute to ten minute: Multiply by 0.871

Or just use the other approximation.

Got confused a bit there, didn't remember posting at 5:42am this morning when I was asleep.

It's the same calculation as converting between mph and kts, so it's pretty easy to remember.

P.K. wrote:Got confused a bit there, didn't remember posting at 5:42am this morning when I was asleep.

Haha... sorry about that, P.K. I was skimming through threads and found this one. When I got to the bottom, I noticed a link to "bump the thread." When bumping the thread, I guess the forum automatically takes the latest post and resets it to the "bumped" time.

I'm just going to post the direct links to everyone:

• Atlantic and East Pacific (including Central Pacific):
  
  • RSMCs and TCWCs
    
    • National Hurricane Center (RSMC Miami)
    • Central Pacific Hurricane Center (RSMC Honolulu)
  • Other national weather services
    
    • Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services
    • Bahamas Department of Meteorology
    • Barbados Meteorological Services
    • Belize National Meteorological Service
    • Bermuda Weather Service
    • Brazil Instituto Nacional de Meteolorogia
    • Canadian Hurricane Centre, part of Environment Canada
    • Cayman Islands National Meteorological Service
    • Costa Rica Instituto Meteorológico Nacional
    • Cuba Instituto de Meteorología
    • Oficina Nacional de Meteorología Dominicana (Dominican Republic)
    • El Salvador Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales
    • Guatemala Instituto Nacional de Sismologia, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrologia
    • Guyana Hydrometeorological Service
    • Meteorological Service, Jamaica
    • Mexico Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN)
    • Nicaragua Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales
    • Panama Hidro Meteorología, ETESA (English version)
    • Saint Lucia Meteorological Service
    • Meteorological Service Suriname (English version)
    • United States National Weather Service
    • Venezuela Servicio de Meteorología

• Western North Pacific:
  
  • RSMC
    
    • Japan Meteorological Agency
  • NMHS TC advisories pages
    
    • China Typhoon Institute, part of the China Meteorological Administration (English versions)
    • Hong Kong Observatory
    • Korea Meteorological Administration
    • Macau Serviços Meteorológicos e Geofisicos (SMG) (English version)
    • Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia
    • PAGASA
    • Singapore Meteorological Service, part of the National Environment Agency
    • Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
    • Thai Meteorological Department
    • U.S. National Weather Service Forecast Office Guam

• North Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea):
  
  • RSMC
    
    • India Meteorological Department
  • Other national weather services
    
    • Iran Meteorological Organization (English version)
    • Oman Meteorological Department (English version)
    • Pakistan Meteorological Department
    • Thai Meteorological Department

• Southwest Indian Ocean, Southeast Indian Ocean and South Pacific
  
  • RSMCs and TCWCs
    
    • Météo-France (RSMC La Réunion)
    • Fiji Met Service (RSMC Nadi)
    • Australia Bureau of Meteorology
      
      • TCWC Perth
      • TCWC Darwin
      • TCWC Brisbane
    • New Zealand Met Service (TCWC Wellington)
  • Other national weather services
    
    • Service Météo Madagasikara (Madagascar)
    • Malawi Meteorological Services
    • Mauritius Meteorological Services
    • Météo-France (French Polynesia)
    • Météo-France (New Caledonia)
    • South Africa Weather Service
    • Tanzania Meteorological Agency
    • U.S. National Weather Service WSO Pago Pago
    • Vanuatu Meteorological Service
    • Zimbabwe Meteorological Services Department