Hurricanes

The 2017 season

107 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

4 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 4,911 people in all, and 3 as having done damage, $319 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

19 storms, 18 at tropical storm strength, 10 hurricanes, 6 major; accumulated cyclone energy 224.9.

Eastern Pacific

20 storms, 18 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 100.7.

Western Pacific

34 storms, 26 at tropical storm strength, 13 typhoons, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 165.8.

North Indian

10 storms, 4 at tropical storm strength, 2 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 16.9.

South Indian

14 storms, 12 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 55.9.

South Pacific

10 storms, 10 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 58.9.

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.