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Tropical Cyclone Seasonal Forecasts

Click on Name of Ocean Basin to go to the Seasonal Forecast table

Red dots indicate locations of Tropical Cyclone (TC) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres (Honolulu, La Réunion, Miami, Nadi, New Delhi, and Tokyo).

Background:One of the recommendations of the Sixth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (San Jose, Costa Rica, 21 to 30 November 2006), a quadrennial gathering of tropical cyclone researchers, forecasters and warning specialists from all regions affected by tropical cyclones, is to establish a working group of experts to develop a common set of metrics for evaluating the skill of seasonal forecasts of tropical cyclone activity and report on a central website hosted by WMO. In response to this recommendation, an expert team meeting was organized by WMO in Boulder on 24-25 April 2008. The meeting was chaired by Dr Suzana Camargo (USA) and attended by four members of the expert team and three invited experts. This website is to provide a self-consistent set of seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts, their descriptions and links to the original forecasts.

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