Hurricanes

The 2016 season

99 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

5 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 759 people in all, and 3 as having done damage, $17 billion of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

16 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 140.5.

Eastern Pacific

23 storms, 22 at tropical storm strength, 14 hurricanes, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 198.6.

Western Pacific

31 storms, 26 at tropical storm strength, 16 typhoons, 10 major; accumulated cyclone energy 245.0.

North Indian

8 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 14.5.

South Indian

9 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 97.7.

South Pacific

12 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 109.7.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.