Observed arrival · 2026-10-17
STORMWATCH, a hurricane reconnaissance dashboard
A public dashboard for viewing tropical storms alongside forecast models, weather imagery, radar, aircraft sightings, and reconnaissance observations.
- For
- Hurricane watchers and atmospheric researchers
- Worth noticing
- The interface warns that public ADS-B sightings do not verify active reconnaissance missions, and that radar echoes are not measured rainfall at the ground.
Field notes
The interface separates storm tracks, model guidance, satellite and radar imagery, map overlays, aircraft sightings, and reconnaissance observations. Its caveats are unusually operational: it warns that a missing aircraft does not show that no flight occurred, and says stale radar imagery is automatically hidden. The captured page showed several feeds connecting or loading, so the extract does not confirm that live data was available at capture time.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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