This website is so massive that even seasoned web surfers will miss many of the great features that hurricanecity.com has to offer. This page is a tutorial on how to use hurricanecity starting from top to bottom. We recommend when the tropics are slow to come back and take your time exploring the website,it will be well worth your time!
| The commentary above the tracking chart will update 1 or 2 times daily as the tropics get active. Usually Jim Williams will do the commentary about a named storm or updates to the website. Occasionally Bill Phillips will make an update if Jim is not available & there are changes to the site or a rapid change in development with a hurricane. The T.V logo in the upper right hand corner is clickable to hurricane TV our live streaming video feed. This will be live when hurricanes threaten or when major weather disasters are taking place otherwise look for recorded video. The tropical update video in the right hand nav bar is updated sometimes 2 times daily if a serious situation is unfolding. During the off season look for site updates once a month or so. |
| This is where the real changes took place in the new design for 2009. Starting above the tracking chart you see a black line nav bar with 2 links. On the left is a link to past season tracking charts going back to 1998, on the right are current satellite links & current graphics. To the left of the tracking chart is the current feature of the Cayman Islands. Whatever city or island is at highest risk from a named storm will be listed right below the early alert logo. The red dot on the tracking chart also reflects the current featured city. So what do you see when you click on it? here is the Cayman Isl page showing local weather,cams,radars,radio,news etc;. At any time you can click the white circles to zoom in on other cities with the same type of pages. The countdown clock will be activated as soon as a storm is headed in the direction of land & show the time left until TS force winds arrive.The storm centered satellite link just left of the tracking chart clicks to a animated loop on the current storm along with storm specific model runs. The pink areas below the chart are mouseovers showing what each category hurricane is capable of. The named storms below the chart will be clickable to specific data once active. |
| The advisory box below the tracking chart is always updated to reflect the current storm advisory. If more than one storm is active there will be as many boxes as needed. The message board is always a great place where hurricanecity visitors exchange relevant information. Jim's predictions for the week is where jim Williams makes his predictions every Monday & leaves them up for a whole week ,check back late week to see if he blew it or nailed it. This page also shows Jim's city predictions made on June 1st picking the highest risk cities,if your city is in the top 5 batten down the hatches. The polls usually ask a question about the current storm,see if your opinion matches others. The TV logo below links to the live hurricane TV page just like the logo in the header,they are both the same broadcast. |
