The Atlantic Ocean churns out more than a dozen tropical storms and hurricanes during an average season, several of which often threaten land. These threats make hurricane forecasts a mainstay of ...

According to a National Weather Service forecast office in South Carolina, Gulf states typically spend more time in the ...

What the cone looks like on a map a deceptively simple, widening path-is actually a careful calculation of where the center ...

Where is Hurricane Imelda, and what is the cone of uncertainty? In just a few days, the storm strengthened from tropical depression to hurricane, and as of Tuesday, Sept. 30, Hurricane Imelda was a ...

It's a staple of every hurricane season: the forecast "cone of uncertainty," which warns the public of the projected path of a tropical depression, storm or hurricane. But there are some important ...

TRACK MELISSA  Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is headed for Jamaica as one of the strongest storms on record for the Atlantic ...

The "cone of uncertainty" represents a projected path for a named storm and covers days 1 through 5 of a forecast. The USA TODAY Network in Florida provides daily tropics watch reports during ...