Tropical cyclone warnings and guidance

WMO has designated Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres (RSMCs) who have responsibility for the issue of tropical cyclone warnings in their area and should be used as a first source of information.

WMO Severe Weather Information Centre

Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres

National Hurricane Center, Miami (Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific oceans east of 140°W)

Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo (Western North Pacific Ocean from Malay peninsula to 180°)

India Meteorological Department, New Delhi (Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea)

Central Pacific Hurricane Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (North Pacific Ocean 140-180°W)

Météo France á La Réunion (South Indian Ocean from African coast to 90°E)

Meteorological Service, Nadi, Fiji (South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E and north of 25°S)

Other tropical cyclone warning centres

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (seas around Australia, longitude 90-160°E)

MetService, Wellington, New Zealand (South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E and south of 25°S)

Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (all oceans west of 180°)

Canadian Hurricane Centre, Halifax, Canada (Canadian Atlantic shores)

BMKG, Jakarta, Indonesia (seas around Indonesia)

Met Office tropical cyclone guidance

The Met Office issues tropical cyclone guidance messages twice per day based on information from its global model forecasts. Links to these messages are provided below for information only. The guidance messages are not official tropical cyclone forecasts and therefore should not be used exclusively to make decisions which will affect life or property. Refer to forecasts issued by one of the RSMCs (above) for official forecast information.

The messages are primarily designed to give an indication of the Met Office global model's forecast track of tropical cyclones. The messages also give an explicit forecast of central pressure and maximum wind speed, but note intensity tends to be underestimated in the global model particularly for stronger tropical cyclones. Details of tropical cyclone forecast biases in the Met Office global model forecasts can be found in the Forecast Verification page.