
Understand how hurricanes form over tropical waters, with the eye, eye wall, feeder bands, and warm moist air driving a warm-core low-pressure system, and review the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Track how a tropical wave becomes a tropical depression, then a tropical storm with a name, and finally a hurricane, with wind ranges, categories, and movement.
Track real-time United States hurricane activity using National Hurricane Center advisories, forecast cones, and satellite imagery; understand Ida's advancing landfall, tropical storm conditions, and warning regimes.
Learn how hurricane watches and warnings guide evacuation and protection, and how ensemble forecasting and models track landfall, eye wall conditions, and high wind warnings.
Explore how the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season's record activity compares with the 2004 and 2005 seasons, highlighting Florida landfalls, warm ocean temps, and wind shear patterns.
Do you want to know more about hurricanes? How do they form? What makes them so powerful? Why you should be prepared for one? How do meteorologists forecast such amazing storms? Well have no fear, this introductory course will give you a taste of how hurricanes develop across the ocean and makes it way toward a land mass. We will use real world examples to help you understand hurricanes formation, hurricane tracking, and what forecasting tools weatherman use to plan where hurricanes could be going.
We will also discuss live examples of hurricanes using tracking maps. We will learn to read basic hurricane information and intensity information. We will also touch on what helps to steer hurricanes in the atmosphere. Hurricane season runs from June 1- November 30 every year and each season brings something different to North America and beyond. Take this course to get prepared and stay ahead of the curve when the hurricane season arrives in your neighborhood. You can watch the Weather Channel or Accu weather, but you need this course to understand the basics of what you are looking at and how to better stay out of harm's way when a hurricane comes to your city, town ,or state.