The National Hurricane Center (NHC) Miami, Fla., assigned an area in the northwestern Bahamas an 80 percent probability of becoming a tropical cyclone over Memorial Day weekend.
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) Miami, Fla., assigned an area in the northwestern Bahamas an 80 percent probability of becoming a tropical cyclone over Memorial Day weekend.
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Check NASA's Hurricane Twitter feed for a daily behind the scenes look at storms in the tropics.
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NASA's Hurricane Twitter, which posts the web site's updates, exceeded 200,000 followers recently - a landmark that just a few NASA Twitter accounts have reached.
This visualization shows sea surface current flows. The flows are colored by corresponding sea surface temperature data.
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To view the archive of hurricanes from earlier years, click this link.
NASA has developed several educational tools including posters, graphics, and classroom activities on hurricanes.