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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 26/09/2026

Tropical storm Gonzalo's wind field impacted the eastern Cabo Verde islands and is now forecast by NHC to weaken. This makes 15 cities/islands impacted so far in 2026 or roughly 11% still below last years 18%.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 25/09/2026

Gonzalo to pass near the Cape Verde Islands. Last impacted in 2015 by hurricane Fred as a rare cat 1 event but this time it will be a tropical storm . They get impacted once every 12 years with only 2 of them hurricanes. After hitting forecast to weaken hurricanecity.com/city/capever...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 21/09/2026

Here is a list alphabetical order top to bottom of the cities/islands average hit dates by hurricanes after the height of the season, everything shifts east for the U.S. The question is are we even go to get a hurricane this year much less impact land.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 12/09/2026

Top cities in the HC database since 1950 impacted by named storms in Atlantic basin in El Nino years not inc 2026. US only Cape Hatteras 10 Charleston 8 Savannah 8 Apalachicola 7 Morehead city 7 Beaufort 6 Cameron 6 Delray 6 Elizabeth city 6 Ft Myers 6 Georgetown 6 Ocean city 6 Wilmington 6

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 02/09/2026

Tropical Storm Edouard added to the HC database as a hit for Cameron Louisiana my #20 and Port Arthur Texas not picked. The statistics for % of basin impacted has not changed as these areas were already impacted by TS Bertha. Last year was 18% of the basin impacted this year so far 11%.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 15/08/2026

Anyone wanting to watch hurricane Lala approaching Hawaii we have a map of every radar in the world.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 08/08/2026

green areas up yellow areas down in tropical system impacts since 1990

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 26/07/2026

Inventory so far for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, last year it was 18% for the season.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 15/06/2026

So we have invest 90L currently in Mexico that has a chance to make it out into the Gulf. www.hurricanecity.com is now in active monitoring mode. Any data you need including models are right there to explore

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 09/06/2026

AI weather videos worth watching first one by Alex Garcia drive.google.com/file/d/1AAnu... the second one by Mark Sudduth www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i4uri... both creative and time consuming to put together worth the watch.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 04/06/2026

Hurricane Melissa wind field as it was approaching Jamaica. I do this for each significant hurricane next to the state of Florida for size comparison, had a very small hurricane wind field. On this page it is clickable to the NHC advisory showing the size. hurricanecity.com/howbig.htm

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 02/06/2026

June 1st,2026 hurricane season kickoff show discussing recently attended tropical weather conference in texas,New additions to hurricanecity.com and the homefront. Model information spreading on social media and how AI ensembles could be misused. www.youtube.com/live/aTmcW5S...

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HurricaneCity: Atlantic hurricane tracking

Hurricane coverage, tracking, city database of landfalls and latest & best performing hurricane models.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 15/05/2026

I have released my 2026 landfall predictions for the Atlantic basin. Since 1990 slower seasons have produced over 50% landfalls of what does develop so have a plan. youtu.be/Fh0T2dp5SCQ?...

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2026 landfall predictions for hurricane season

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 25/04/2026

92 locations chosen, I have to get it down to my top 20 for being impacted in 2026 season Savannah GA may make the list prone to being impacted by hurricanes in slower seasons stay tuned hurricanecity.com/city/savanna...

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Savannah, Georgia Hurricanes - HurricaneCity

Explore the hurricane history of Savannah, Georgia, including how often it's affected, statistics on storms that impacted it & more.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 12/04/2026

Topic at conference 1888 hurricane that hit S FL was it major? hurdat2 has not been changed. Bryan Norcross says cat 1 further north based on data he's gathered anyone?

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 06/04/2026

I will be attending the tropical weather conference in Padre TX from April 8th-10th,anyone else going?

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 04/03/2026

The only thing missing is a huge Tsunami at the end, love it

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 27/02/2026

hurricane mitigation new metal roof with a grant to pay part of it from my Florida homes. youtu.be/r5so1-HIQgw

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 18/02/2026

Classic rewind with the late Jim Leonard one of the first to film hurricanes back when we had to run wires to do a show www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF05...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 01/02/2026

Rare to see temps this cold down here in Delray had to crank up the tower cam as it got down to 33.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I summarized the biggest weather disasters of 2025 using last week's summaries from Gallagher Re and Aon. The costliest: $65 billion in damage from the L.A. wildfires. The deadliest: 24,000+ killed in the summer heatwave in Europe. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/eart...

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Earth was hit by 55 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2025 » Yale Climate Connections

The world endured its costliest wildfire on record in 2025, its sixth-deadliest heat wave, and four floods or storms that caused at least 1,000 deaths.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 23/01/2026

Even though it's not hurricane season the clickable maps showing what counties will be impacted by winter weather is still active. www.hurricanecity.com

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

FEMA "CORE" positions are central to FEMA's mission and keep the agency nimble (and functioning) in times of disaster. Past administrators on both sides of the aisle have aimed to strengthen and expand these positions. Don't see how federal disaster response and recovery continues after slashing 41%

"Emails sent to senior agency leadership in late December include detailed tables identifying roles that can be cut from the agency’s divisions. These tables include a 41 percent reduction in CORE disaster roles, more than 4,300 positions. They also list reductions in surge staffing, standby workers who are often the first on the ground when a disaster strikes, by 85 percent, or nearly 6,500 roles."

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 24/12/2025

sad to hear about the passing of former NHC director Neil Frank I had a word with him at the 2005 hurricane conference right before Katrina hurricanecity.com/images/vario...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 01/12/2025

My hurricane season wrap up show discussing how forecasting modeling and predictions panned out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkY...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 29/11/2025

Join me on Sunday night November 30th 8PM ET for my annual hurricane season wrap up show. Did you know the amount of cities impacted has dropped each year since 2020. Tune in on my socials www.facebook.com/jimhurricane... www.youtube.com/@jimhurrican...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 04/11/2025

Our release of hurricane Melissa coverage as it ravaged Jamaica. youtu.be/5NlNSrOyrhc

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Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 01/11/2025

Updated inventory of cities/islands impacted in 2025 by named systems Melissa added 8 to the map

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Tropical Globe @tropicalglobe.com · 01/11/2025

The Air Force & NOAA hurricane hunters conducted 33 missions into, and around, #Melissa. Additional information appears in the alternate text for the images.

As what is left of post-tropical cyclone Melissa moves rapidly off into the northern Atlantic east of Canada, we look back at the missions into Melissa as a tropical cyclone. The Air Force and NOAA hurricane hunters conducted 33 missions into, and around, Melissa. They surveyed the storm from the time it was a tropical storm and throughout its rapid intensification into one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded. Its turbulence was so intense at times that multiple aircraft had to return early for safety to be inspected after passing through its intense eyewall. Melissa made landfall at its peak intensity in New Hope, Jamaica with sustained winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 millibars. By both metrics Melissa tied, in both sustained wind speed and lowest mean sea level pressure, as the most intense tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on record in the Atlantic. (tying the landfalling wind speed of Hurricane Dorian in 2019 in the Bahamas and tying the landfalling pressure of the Labor Day hurricane in 1935 in the Florida Keys) The hurricane hunters continued their missions into the storm as long as it remained a threat to land as a tropical cyclone. The storm also had impacts in Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda before becoming extratropical and passing east of Newfoundland in Canada. (impacted areas include areas where it did not make landfall)

(A description of what appears in the map appears in the alternate text for image two.)

Map showing the missions by the Air Force and NOAA hurricane hunters into, and around, Melissa. White circle icons represent either the mean sea level pressure in millibars recorded by a dropsonde released from the plane or the estimated MSLP if that data was not available. This data comes from a vortex data message. In cases where the wind was not calm enough at the center, the actual pressure may be estimated to be lower and that pressure is not reflected on the icon.

Wind barbs represent the wind speed and direction from the 30 second flight level wind that is usually reported every 30 seconds in a high density observation. (HDOB message)

A dropsonde icon, pictured as a slender tube, is what is used to measure pressure, temperature and dew point as it falls from the aircraft. A dropsonde is released from the aircraft by a tube.

The Air Force used multiple Lockheed WC-130J Hercules aircraft while NOAA used a Lockheed WP-3D Orion to survey the storm and penetrate its eye. NOAA also used a Gulfstream IV-SP to sample around the storm.

Screenshot from Google Earth.
Blue Marble image background from NASA GIBS.
World coastlines from Natural Earth.

(A description of the historic storm appears in the alternate text for image one.)

A closeup of hurricane hunter mission data from around Jamaica showing its rapid intensification as noted by the vortex icons described in the alternate text for image two.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

2X increase in the most extreme hurrucanes! Looking at every Cat 4 & 5 in the Atlantic since 1980 (reliable records/ data gathering) I broke the record into 2 equal parts. 1980-2002 and 2003-2025 The most recent period has more than double the number of most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic!… 1/

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 30/10/2025

big difference between a brush and a hit in Jamaica residents outside these red circles of 64kt winds including Negril were not hit by hurricane melissa.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 29/10/2025

Incredible destruction from Hurricane Melissa from the black river area of Jamaica aerial footage www.facebook.com/share/p/1FVG...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 29/10/2025

Mountains of Eastern Cuba mangling hurricane Melissa

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 27/10/2025

There is no escaping Melissa in Jamaica as it moves in Tuesday morning THIS WILL BE BAD

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 25/10/2025

I will be live each night at 8:00PM ET until landfall to discuss hurricane Melissa available in the following places hurricanecity.com/live/ www.facebook.com/jimhurricane... www.youtube.com/@jimhurrican...

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HurricaneCity.tv - Live Video Coverage When Hurricanes Hit

This video will be live with hurricane coverage and other bad weather when any hurricane is approaching land.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 24/10/2025

2005 Hurricane Wilma passed over my towercam the only hurricane to do so. Cam captured the winds but no sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKK...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 21/10/2025

Invest 98L to be named Melissa today at that point the Euro will be added. So far these are the best track performers suggesting this will go further west. At this time only a few ensemble members of all the models have this flirting with Florida. Will the GFS be right taking this over Hispaniola?

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Blown away by Google DeepMind's performance this year. We'll see if it carries into 2026, but it's been just head and shoulders better than any other model trackwise this season, including the gold standard consensus guidance. Big win for the addition of LLMs 👏

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 06/10/2025

Percentage of land impacts so far for Atlantic basin 2025 hurricane season.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 01/10/2025

Bermuda to be hit tonight but could Imelda be major? Here is a video on the majors to impact Bermuda and what they did to this tiny island. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR1p...

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 27/09/2025

Big reason why I encourage people to visit www.hurricanecity.com is the mapping of the best performing models which yesterday a couple of best performers were showing a turn to the right .Today it's even more showing Humberto having a big influence on track.

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 25/09/2025

Tracking hurricane Gabrielle which will hit the Azores islands late tonight early Friday as a cat 1. You can watch cams and observations hurricanecity.com/wx/azoresobs...

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National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Alerts (UNOFFICIAL) @nhc-atlc.nws-bot.us · 17/09/2025

Atlantic Tropical Depression Seven Advisory Number 1 issued at Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:34:46 +0000 ...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC... Additional Details Here.

000WTNT32 KNHC 170834TCPAT2 BULLETINTropical Depression Seven Advisory Number 1NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL072025500 AM AST Wed Sep 17 2025 ...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC... SUMMARY OF 500 AM AST...0900 UTC...INFORMATION----------------------------------------------LOCATION...13.7N 45.9WABOUT 1185 MI...1905 KM ESE OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDSMAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...35 MPH...55 KM/HPRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 280 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/HMINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1007 MB...29.74 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS--------------------There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK----------------------At 500 AM AST (0900 UTC), the center of Tropical Depression Sevenwas located near latitude 13.7 North, longitude 45.9 West. Thedepression is moving toward the west near 13 mph (20 km/h). A west-northwestward to northwestward motion across the tropical and subtropical central Atlantic is expected during the next few days. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts.Slow strengthening is expected, and the system could become a tropical storm later today or tonight. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1007 mb (29.74 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND----------------------None NEXT ADVISORY-------------Next complete advisory at 1100 AM AST. $$Forecaster Cangialosi

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 12/09/2025

who gets hit most after the height of hurricane season?

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Jim Williams @hurricanecity.com · 10/09/2025

Height of hurricane season only matters when it comes to hits. This graph shows the 139 cities in the HC database and the time period most likely to be hit by a hurricane.

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

ICYMI, I have a unique perspective today on this 125th anniversary of the deadliest American hurricane.

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