Cruising Resources: Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones

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Caribbean Marine Weather Resources – Shortwave Weather Nets & Websites for Winter 2024/2025 – Caribbean Compass

Here is just a selection of particularly useful articles for cruisers:

Understanding Tropical Waves: The Building Blocks of Atlantic Hurricanes (Caribbean Compass May 2025)

Sahara Dust Muddies Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Formation (Caribbean Compass April 2025)

Surviving the Storm:  A Sailor's Tale of Hurricane Lee (Cruising World September 2024)

Shelter from the Storm – Caribbean Hurricane Preparedness (Caribbean Compass 2024)

Wicked Weather: High Latitude Sailing Strategies (Cruising World 2023)

5 Tips for Sailing in Strong Winds (PBO 2023)

Sailing in Heavy Weather (Ocean Navigators 2021)

Hurricane Season is Here (Noonsite - June 2021)

Caribbean: When to Leave and Which Way to Go? (Noonsite - May 2021)

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Haiti: Maritime Health Advisory

Post-Storm Health Issues in Haiti Haiti continues to harbor an environmentally persistent cholera strain originally introduced from South Asia in 2010. Unlike previous outbreaks in...

Published 2 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago

Australia: Early Season Tropical Cyclone to Make Landfall over Northern Territory

Source: Bureau of Meteorology According to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Tropical Cyclone Fina is expected to turn south towards the northern Top End coast...

Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago

South East Asia: Philippines Braces for Typhoon Fung Wong

Typhoon Fung-wong (Super Typhoon Uwan) was a powerful and destructive November 2025 cyclone that struck the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, rapidly intensifying after...

Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago

South Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season: Higher Risk for Vanuatu and New Caledonia

Five to Seven Named Tropical Cyclones Expected In their Tropical Cyclone (TC) season outlook, Earth Sciences New Zealand (ESNZ) say five to nine named tropical...

Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago

Caribbean, Hurricane Melissa: Devastation and Destruction for Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba

For updates if intending to visit Jamaica - see Jamaica Travel Alerts for information. Update Friday October 31 Devastation and destruction for Jamaica, Cuba and...

Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago

Climate: Why a Hotter Mediterranean is a Problem for Sailors

Source: The Financial Times Mediterranean Weather Becoming More Unpredictable Investigations into the sinking of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian at an anchorage off Sicily...

Published 4 months ago
Updated 2 weeks ago
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