“Official” 2025 Hurricane/TD/Weather thread for the 2025 hurricane season

[OhDannyBoy]

Good for him.

It seems to me that most TV weather forecasters are more intent on gaining audience. So they tout the "latest" updates that are no different than what they said 4 hours ago. They also warn of the severest conditions that might happen a week out - so stay tuned.

As someone who has lived in the "cone of death" my entire life (just north of Miami) it's sad how true this can be.

You can only take so much worst case scenario and preparedness tips before going insane. I usually turn the TV off if we are in the crosshairs of a storm. But every storm they act like it is Armageddon. Yeah it can be dangerous, but getting everyone scared to death does nothing good and causes panic at gas stations (I keep 5 5 gallons gas cans full every hurricane season for this reason) home depot, costco, etc... I've seen every gas station in a 30 mile radius run out of gas and have hours long lines for storms that didn't even make land fall in our area, or were glorified thunder storms. I blame the news people for this.

Personally, I find going to the national Hurricane center my best bet.

 

[Disnsyncey]

For day to day monitoring of the tropics, I use ventusky.com to look for trouble. You can select the criteria you want to view by (precipitation, wind speed, wind guests, etc.) and I usually select wind gusts, since that makes any potential hurricane really pop on the screen. There are several different computer models available to view, with some going out as far as two weeks. There are no forecasts, no hyped up predictions, just the simple running of computer models at various intervals. I check it when I first wake up, around lunch time, and before bed, every day during hurricane season.

Once a hurricane has formed I add the National Hurricane Center site to get the predictions and cones. If one is coming through Florida, I usually use AccuWeather because it lets me track down to a local neighborhood level as the storm passes through.

I don’t rely as much on regular weather channels or local news for the hurricane itself. I do use local news for information relating to prep and clean up.

oooooo that's a neat page!