Atlantic · Caribbean · Gulf
Live tropical activity for the Florida coast, mirrored from the National Hurricane Center. The season runs through November 30. The climatological peak, September 10, has passed.
The National Hurricane Center is the official source
Everything on this page is copied from NHC products and linked back to them. For decisions about your safety, property or travel, use the official advisories and whatever your county emergency management office is telling you — not this page, and not any app.
Its center is currently about 2876 miles from Port Canaveral. That is where it is now, not where it is going — the forecast track and cone are on the NHC advisory.
Read the NHC advisory ↗Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Mon Sep 21 2026 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America: Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Fay, located several hundred miles southwest of the Azores. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days. Forecaster Pasch
Issued Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:28:08 GMT. Reproduced verbatim from the National Hurricane Center (public domain). View on nhc.noaa.gov ↗
The cone is the most misread graphic in weather. It shows where the center of the storm is likely to track — historically the center stays inside it about two thirds of the time, which also means it lands outside it one time in three. It says nothing at all about how big the storm is.
A large hurricane can bring damaging wind, surge and flooding rain hundreds of miles from the line down the middle. Being outside the cone is not an all-clear, and being on the edge of it is not a near miss. Read the watches and warnings for your own county rather than measuring your distance from the line.
The category is based on sustained wind speed alone. It deliberately says nothing about rainfall, surge or the size of the storm — which is why a Category 1 can still be the costliest thing to happen to a coastline in a decade.
| Category | Sustained wind | Typical effect |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical Storm | 39–73 mph | Downed limbs, minor damage, dangerous seas |
| Category 1 | 74–95 mph | Roof, siding and gutter damage; days-long outages |
| Category 2 | 96–110 mph | Major roof and siding damage; near-total power loss |
| Category 3 | 111–129 mph | Devastating. Water and power out for days to weeks |
| Category 4 | 130–156 mph | Catastrophic. Most of the area uninhabitable for weeks |
| Category 5 | 157+ mph | Catastrophic. A high share of framed homes destroyed |
Radar, wind, tides and water temperature for every town we cover:
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