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About Hurricane Track Chart

Hurricane Track Chart is the visual language of the National Hurricane Center's operational advisories: a dark ocean basin overprinted with the white "cone of uncertainty," thin spaghetti-model tracks, and category-coded swirl points keyed to the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Every element earns its place. The cone reads solid for days 1–3 and stippled for days 4–5; a high-category red-orange signals landfall against the navy water. It is calm, exact, and entirely operational.

Learn more about the Hurricane Track Chart style

Origin
North America (Gulf of Mexico & Atlantic basin)
Era
1990–2010 (operational NHC advisory graphics era)
Key figures
NOAA / National Hurricane Center forecasters · Herbert Saffir · Robert Simpson
Movements
Operational tropical-cyclone forecasting graphics · Ensemble spaghetti-model visualization · Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale coding

Hurricane Track Chart design spec

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Typography

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Source Sans 3Body
IBM Plex MonoMono
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