{"id":69009,"date":"2026-08-22T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:42:22","slug":"2026-hurricane-season-maps-tracker-current-storms-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69009\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 hurricane season maps tracker: Current storms, forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"DCT 13\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL13_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where you can track everything from Tropical Storm Moke and Hurricane Lala to all of the other areas we are monitoring in the Atlantic and Pacific basins this hurricane season. <\/p>\n<p>The map above shows satellite imagery of the Pacific Basin, Moke&#8217;s current location and areas we are watching for possible development. <\/p>\n<p>Pacific<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Lala forecast cone<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Pac Storm Track 5\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787424136_459_MAX_WEB_TROP_PAC5_storm_info_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Moke forecast cone<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Pacific Storm Info 6\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MAX_WEB_TROP_PAC6_storm_info_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spaghetti models for Moke<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 23\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL23_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sea surface temperatures <\/p>\n<p>Get More of Our News on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base leading-loose tracking-tight font-medium text-gray-500 mt-2 mb-4\">Set The Weather Company as a &#8216;Preferred Source&#8217; to get quicker access to the news you value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=weather.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-label=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"inline-block w-full max-w-[220px] rounded-lg focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-blue-500 focus-visible:outline-none\" data-testid=\"preferred-source-button\"><img alt=\"\" data-testid=\"preferred-source-badge\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"338\" height=\"107\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/google-preferred-source-badge-en.083veuzl7n_jk.png\"\/><\/a><img alt=\"DCT 29\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL29_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pacific tracks so far this season<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 21\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL21_1280x720.jpg\"\/>Atlantic<img alt=\"DCT 10\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787424140_694_DCT_SPECIAL10_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wind shear <\/p>\n<p>These are areas of strong wind shear, the difference in wind speed and direction with height \u2014 are shown in purple. High wind shear is hostile to mature tropical cyclones and those trying to develop.<\/p>\n<p>(MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/2026\/07\/27\/science\/weather-explainers\/video\/what-is-wind-shear-hurricane-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is wind shear<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 25\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787424141_279_DCT_SPECIAL25_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dry, dusty air<\/p>\n<p>Another nemesis of tropical systems is dry air.<\/p>\n<p>In hurricane season, plumes of dust-laden air stream across the basin from Africa&#8217;s Sahara Desert, as you can see in the map below. This sinking, dry air squelches thunderstorm development, the building blocks of tropical storms and hurricanes. <\/p>\n<p>So areas in the brown shading below are generally unfavorable for development. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 20\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL20_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sea surface temperatures <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 24\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL24_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Atlantic tracks so far this season<\/p>\n<p>These are the tracks of systems that were at least tropical or subtropical storms, so far in the Atlantic Basin. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DCT 17\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DCT_SPECIAL17_1280x720.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Season activity compared to average<\/p>\n<p>Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, is a metric that measures the total energy produced by tropical storms and hurricanes over a given period, accounting for both how strong they were and how long they lasted.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another measure meteorologists use to gauge how active a hurricane season has been. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Hurricane season ACE to date August 17, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"shadow-md rounded-lg object-contain h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ACE-by-basin-to-date-17aug26-6f11c4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, is a metric that measures the total energy produced by tropical storms and hurricanes over a given period, accounting for both how strong they were and how long they lasted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-0 text-gray-500\">(Data: Phil Klotzbach\/CSU)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s where you can track everything from Tropical Storm Moke and Hurricane Lala to all of the other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[35822,33866,35821,1791,8,34198,18975,3559,9,10217,3083,4878,535,28910,7,34197,35823],"class_list":["post-69009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-areas-of-interest","tag-atlantic","tag-forecast-cone","tag-hawaii","tag-headlines","tag-hurricane-lala","tag-hurricane-season","tag-maps","tag-news","tag-pacific","tag-portugal","tag-radar","tag-spain","tag-storms-hurricane","tag-top-stories","tag-tropical-storm-lala","tag-tropical-storm-moke"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117140635452911534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}