Decades of improvements in tropical cyclone forecasting have led to slimmer and more accurate hurricane track cones with this year’s ubiquitous funnel 3% to 5% smaller as compared to 2024. The cone, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Knowing exactly where hurricanes will go is tricky business. When the National Hurricane Center issues forecasts, it uses a cone to project where the probable center of the storm will ...

MIAMI – You can tell the hurricane season is shaping up to be an unusual one when Arizona has caught more attention from the National Hurricane Center than Florida, Texas or really anywhere along the ...

If you’ve ever taken even a cursory glance at a hurricane forecast, you’ve seen some version of the “cone of uncertainty.” It sounds like some other-dimensional realm of indecision, but it’s a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The 2025 hurricane season has another month and a half left before we can breathe a sigh of relief. The 2023 and 2024 hurricane seasons were brutal with Idalia, Debby, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In an effort to streamline and better communicate tropical threats to the public, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has made changes to the alerts and maps you’ll see this ...

The "cone of uncertainty" represents a projected path for a named storm and covers days 1 through 5 of a forecast. The USA TODAY Network in Florida provides daily tropics watch reports during ...

Hurricane News: Get the latest hurricane updates and how communities are preparing, responding, and recovering. Latest advisory from National Hurricane Center on Post-Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle At 3 p ...

The cone represents the probable track of the storm's center, with a 66% chance of it staying within the cone. Misinterpretations of the cone include assuming all impacts will occur within its ...