Hurricane Season - Tracking Charts - 1995 to 2008

The intensity of a hurricane and the impact of hurricane season is determined by a multitude of environmental factors including sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure. Now, you can compare and contrast the hurricane seasons between 1995 and 2008 in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans using official National Weather Service yearly tropical cyclone summary maps.

Browse through the following pages (in the table below) to see the pathway and category each named tropical storm, hurricane, or cyclone took in the corresponding year. Each map can be printed for more study of the images and for educational purposes.

How to Read the Hurricane and Typhoon Maps

Each map is color coded with storm intensity level in the lower left-hand corner of the image. The . (Also known as Zulu Time.) Visit the Photo Glossary for a detailed explanation on reading UTC or Zulu time.

Understanding the White Numbered Dots Along the Storm Path

Just like the black dots above, the white dots are a position location of the storm. This time, the position of the storm is given at 1200 UTC or 1200Z. In addition, each number along the line indicates the day in the month of the storm. (The month is found in the lower right-hand box.)

Atlantic

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007 2008

Pacific

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000 A
2000 B
2001 A
2001 B
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006 A
2006 B
2007