Hurricane Zone


Hurricane Season: June 1st - November 30th

When searching for current tropical storms that might impact your cruise plans, you may come across our blog posts from another hurricane season or a different tropical storm.   This page was added to simplify your search.  

Simply come here and we will do the rest - keeping links to current and past storms so that you can easily find the one you are interested in.  We will primarily focus on the Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons, but when cruise itineraries are impacted, may cover other areas of the globe. We welcome your feedback on ways to improve this page and our blog.



Atlantic - Caribbean Sea - Gulf of Mexico
Tropical Weather Outlook (en EspaƱol*)      
Tropical Weather Discussion


The Official Start of Hurricane Season in the Atlantic isn't until June 1st, but we already have our first named storm for 2012.  Last NHC advisory issued on ALBERTO

Alert iconSpecial Tropical Weather Outlook     60% Chance of Tropical Cyclone Activity Developing

NHC issuing advisories on Subtropical Storm BERYL



StormBlog PostNHC LinksCurrent Status & Info
AlbertoFirst Tropical Storm for 2012 Atlantic SeasonStorm Archive

Graphics Archive
1100 AM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012
 
...ALBERTO BECOMES A POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE...
THIS IS THE LAST
ADVISORY...
 
The first Tropical Storm of the 2012 Atlantic Season formed along the East Coast of the United States prior to the official start of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. 

BerylSubtropical Storm Beryl Forms in AtlanticStorm Archive

Graphics Archive
1100 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012

...SUBTROPICAL STORM FORMS IN 
THE SOUTHEWESTERN ATLANTIC...
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED 
FOR A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN
U.S. COAST...
 
The second named storm of the 2012 Atlantic
Season formed along the East Coast of
the United States. 











Eastern Pacific (out to 140°W)
Tropical Weather Outlook
      Tropical Weather Discussion       Central Pacific NHC

NHC issuing advisories on TS BUD

Tropical Storm Sanvu (NW Pacific Ocean)




StormBlog PostNHC LinksCurrent Status &  Info
Aletta Storm Archive


Graphics Archive
800 AM PDT SAT MAY 19 2012
 
...ALETTA BECOMES POST-TROPICAL...
THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY...

Tropical Storm Aletta formed one day before the official start of the 2012 Pacific Hurricane Season.



 BudTropical Depression 2E Forms in East PacificStorm Archive


Graphics Archive
800 PM PDT FRI MAY 25 2012

...BUD CONTINUES TO WEAKEN RAPIDLY 
AS IT APPROACHES THE COAST OF
SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO...

 
TD-2E became TS Bud early Tuesday morning.  It then became the first Hurricane in the East Pacific for 2012 on Wednesday. Bud was a Category Two Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale. Some weakening is forecast on Friday, and it should become a tropical depression Saturday.



 






































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