Hurricanes

The 2021 season

111 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

13 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 113 people in all, and 6 as having done damage, $80 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

21 storms, 21 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 143.0.

Eastern Pacific

20 storms, 20 at tropical storm strength, 8 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 97.3.

Western Pacific

28 storms, 25 at tropical storm strength, 10 typhoons, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 212.1.

North Indian

9 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 3 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 22.5.

South Indian

21 storms, 21 at tropical storm strength, 8 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 142.0.

South Pacific

12 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 57.1.

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.