Hello! I am Alex Boreham. Back in 2018, I began developing this site as a place to display the satellite plots I had been making then, featuring old colortables that had fallen into disuse that year. With time, the library of plots I've made has greatly expanded, and this site has evolved into a source of various different tropical cyclone tracking plots. In 2022, with the help of generous donations, CyclonicWx was able to move to a new server where it is now.
I've always had a passion for meteorology, but interest in tropical cyclones began in 2016 when I began tracking them that summer. Thanks to this interest, I attended Florida State University's meteorology program and received a bachelor's degree in meteorology in 2023. I am now currently pursuing a master's degree in meteorology at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Although I am a meteorologist now, my opinions on the tropics or weather in general are my own views and not that of any official entity, and should not be taken as such. For official information, please consult the National Hurricane Center.
Contact
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Bug reports? Want to get permission to embed an image from here on your own page? Contact me at alex@cyclonicwx.com. I am also available on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
Changelog
August 30, 2025
- Redesigned homepage, adding global map showing current active TCs and Invests and seasonal statistics
August 13, 2025
- Added "Zoomed In" mesoscale imagery when a GOES mesoscale sector overlaps with a TC location
August 10, 2025
- Redesigned satellite/radar page, reducing need to scroll
August 1, 2025
- Redesigned SST page, reducing clutter and compacting page overall
July 29, 2025
- Redesigned model page with cleaner UI and more info about run progress and valid time
July 19, 2025
- Added the Ensemble Prediction System from ECMWF
July 13, 2025
- Added vorticity and divergence plots to ASCAT data
- Cleaned up ASCAT portion of satellite page
- Global ASCAT data map
- Introduced global ASCAT sectors so data outside active TCs/Invests is available
March 2, 2025
- Added global radar data from Rain Viewer
January 31, 2025
- Added METAR data for various different regions
January 9, 2025
- Rebuilt MRMS plots, plotting in Python now with precipitation type included
November 17, 2024
- Created 15 Day Running Mean version of all SST maps for cleaner analysis of trends
October 15, 2024
- Added plots tracking CDO/eye temperature from satellite data for hurricane-strength TCs
September 30, 2024
- Integrated backup GOES data source from Unidata in case of outages
September 19, 2024
- Improved ASCAT plots, making them cleaner overall with colored wind barbs and satellite data
September 13, 2024
- Made maps/graphs of a-deck TC/Invest forecasts, including trends of a couple consensus models and JTWC/NHC forecasts
August 28, 2024
- Added radar data from the Japan Meteorological Agency
May 27, 2024
- Added Tail Doppler Radar data to recon page
March 1, 2024
- Added advertisements to website
- I don't like them either, but helps to ensure server bills can be paid
July 18, 2023
- Major redesign of the entire website, using a new CSS framework to streamline things
- Added a dark mode
- Made automatically-updating GIFs of satellite floaters as an alternative to creating them with the GIF-making feature
- Added Full Disk satellite plots, updating half-hourly
- Started using a vortex-removal technique on wind shear forecast plots
- Added 2 new storm-relative model forecast plots courtesy of Deelan Jariwala