Nov 9, 2026
The National Hurricane Center rates hurricanes by one number: peak sustained wind. Here is the official table in mph, knots and km/h, and what a category cannot tell you about surge and rain.
Nov 9, 2026
Official season dates from the National Hurricane Center for the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific, with peak periods, average first-storm dates and how NOAA builds its seasonal outlooks.
Nov 9, 2026
The cone is a map of forecast error for the storm's center. Here is how NHC sizes it for 2026, what the new map adds, and which NHC products show wind, surge and rain instead.
Nov 9, 2026
Who picks the names, why the 2026 list returns in 2032, which Atlantic names were retired after the 2020 to 2025 seasons, and what happens when a busy season runs out of names.
Nov 9, 2026
Depression, storm and hurricane are stages of one kind of system, separated by NHC wind thresholds. The name changes again in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.
Nov 9, 2026
NHC times every tropical watch and warning to the first tropical-storm-force winds. Here are the official definitions for hurricane, tropical storm, storm surge and extreme wind alerts.
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