- Warnings, Forecasts, and Insights
- Hurricane Impact Forecasts
- Leverage 14 Tropical Portal Layers
- Long-range Forecasts
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Hurricane Warnings, Forecasts, and Insights
AccuWeather For Business hurricane impact-driven warnings and forecasts provide organizations worldwide with a single, accurate source of information when hurricanes threaten. All products are displayed on the intuitive AccuWeather For Business Portal and SkyGuard® Companion App. Use our Superior Accuracy™ to make the best decisions to enhance safety and reduce risk and liability.
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Hurricane Impact Forecasts
Get key details on expected hurricane track and impacts emailed to you whenever we have important updates to share. Our meteorologists prepare hurricane forecasts independently of the government, and our forecasts are issued ahead of any other source, giving you a head start in preparation. Once a storm approaches the coast, Impact Forecasts become more frequent and offer greater detail, allowing a more granular look at actual impact per asset location.
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Leverage 14 Tropical Portal Layers
Layers include watches and warnings, storm surge, rainfall, maximum wind gusts, probability of hurricane-force winds, and more. With the AccuWeather For Business Portal, you won’t have to guess what impacts will affect which areas – the specifics are clearly presented based on our own forecasts. Unique to the Portal is our detailed forecast track, drawn and adjusted by expert meteorologists. Additionally, our proprietary risk assessment layer provides an impact-based evaluation for all expected hazards and hurricane factors, including the time of year, societal, infrastructure, recent rainfall, and more. The Portal displays forecasts up to 7 days in advance.
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Long-range Forecasts
Created by our lead hurricane meteorologist and distributed daily by email, this report contains expert tropical commentary accompanied by detailed maps for the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, including potential areas for development, as well as storm tracks. Use this daily update to be the first to know about possible tropical storm development and risk areas. Long-range forecasts for western Pacific and Australian basins are also available.
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Description
- September 2022: HURRICANE IAN
- November 2022: HURRICANE NICOLE
- October 2012: HURRICANE SANDY
- August 2005: HURRICANE KATRINA
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Hurricane Ian
AccuWeather provided far more advance notice and warnings with far more decision-making value than any other source about the historic danger to come. First, AccuWeather began issuing track forecasts for the storm a full three days BEFORE The National Hurricane Center (NHC) and all other sources and was the first to predict Ian would become a major hurricane as it approached Cuba and headed toward Florida.
- AccuWeather forecasts of the storm’s winds were 13% more accurate than those of the NHC and AccuWeather’s track forecast averaged 2 miles greater accuracy as compared to the NHC.
- AccuWeather provided the best wording and communication of dangerous impacts in the Western Caribbean and Southeastern US. In fact, we provided residents of the western Caribbean notice of the risk of a major hurricane strike days before any other source even named the storm.
- Hurricane Ian claimed over 150 lives. AccuWeather saved dozens of lives because we were the only source to predict the 18’ storm surge on the Florida west coast. Neither the National Hurricane Service nor any other source predicted a storm surge as high as AccuWeather did.
- AccuWeather forecasts of the storm’s winds were 13% more accurate than those of the NHC and AccuWeather’s track forecast averaged 2 miles greater accuracy as compared to the NHC.
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HURRICANE NICOLE
A month before Nicole formed, AccuWeather correctly predicted that the tropical Atlantic would become active in early November – a time of year that is typically less active.
- Five days before landfall, AccuWeather was the first to forecast Nicole’s track, two days BEFORE The National Hurricane Center(NHC) and all other sources. AccuWeather’s initial forecast, issued 5 days in advance, accurately forecast landfall on the East Coast of Florida.
- In addition, once again, AccuWeather was the only source to have the most accurate track and intensity forecast for Hurricane Nicole. Averaged over all forecasts, AccuWeather’s forecasts of Nicole’s winds were 14% more accurate than the NHC and all other sources while AccuWeather track forecasts were 5% more accurate than the NHC and all other sources.
- Five days before landfall, AccuWeather was the first to forecast Nicole’s track, two days BEFORE The National Hurricane Center(NHC) and all other sources. AccuWeather’s initial forecast, issued 5 days in advance, accurately forecast landfall on the East Coast of Florida.
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Hurricane Sandy
The eye of Hurricane Sandy, surrounded by winds gusting as high as 120 mph, came ashore on October 29 at Atlantic City, NJ following a very unusual path that pummeled the East Coast.
- AccuWeather was the first to notify the public and save lives with warnings that were days ahead and more accurate than any other source.
- AccuWeather told one of our corporate clients, a major national big-box store, to stock up on batteries, generators, water, and other items needed by people in a hurricane. While competing stores ran out of stock, our client was able to meet its customers’ needs during the crisis, thereby serving their customers and gaining new ones.
- While the government and other public sources of information declared that Sandy would “not be a hurricane” at landfall, AccuWeather continued to call it a hurricane, knowing that people take action more critically for a hurricane than for more standard wind and coastal flood warning, which are issued multiple times each year for these areas.
- AccuWeather was the first to notify the public and save lives with warnings that were days ahead and more accurate than any other source.
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Hurricane Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina, one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, approached New Orleans, AccuWeather’s accurate forecasts made a big difference, saving many thousands of lives.
- A full week before the storm hit, AccuWeather was already predicting it to be a “real problem … New Orleans storm, enhanced development.”
- Three days before the storm hit, AccuWeather predicted “Catastrophe in the making in New Orleans … could be one of the top Gulf hits in modern times.”
- The day before Katrina hit, AccuWeather warned, “life-threatening flooding with breached levees … 50-70% of the city will be flooded and could remain under water for days or weeks. Preparations to save lives should be rushed to completion.”
- Shortly after that AccuWeather warning, the National Hurricane Center briefed President Bush that “there will be minimal flooding in the city of New Orleans itself.”
- A full week before the storm hit, AccuWeather was already predicting it to be a “real problem … New Orleans storm, enhanced development.”
