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What The 'Cone Of Uncertainty' Does And Doesn't Tell You About Threatening Tropical Storms And Hurricanes
It's a staple each hurricane season that warns where a tropical storm or hurricane is headed, but did you know it often won't ...
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Why the National Hurricane Center's forecast cone may look a little different this year
The NHC states that the new forecast cone overall will be 3 to 5% smaller compared to last year ... the forecast cone is made up of a series of forecast circles that represent the probable ...
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Hurricane forecasts 2025: Here’s how the ‘cone of uncertainty’ maps will change this year
The narrowing of the cone does not mean storms have a smaller circumference ... There is a 1/3 chance the storm will track outside the circle, and it could track to the top or bottom as well.
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How the National Hurricane Center predicts, and tracks a powerful storm's path
From the circles, "the cone of uncertainty" emerges for the forecast ... like Hilary for example, small errors in the track forecast can move the storm's landfall to a point much higher up or ...
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Hurricane track forecasts have hit a wall but new modeling may give them a boost
The cone, which covers days 1 through 5 of a forecast, is made up of circles sized so that 66% of the time the center of the storm has stayed inside that area. A smaller forecast track cone means ...
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Hurricane experts stress that residents not focus too much on 'the cone'
THE CONE IS GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER. MOST PEOPLE LOOK AT THE CONE AND THINK, GREAT, I’M NOT IN THE CONE. I DON’T NEED TO WORRY. ROD WRONG STORM SURGE, HEAVY RAIN, TORNADOE During hurricane ...