From the fastest-forming Category-5 to the most intense hurricane ever recorded, NOAA satellites have seen it all. 🌀 As this year’s hurricane season continues, discover how our eyes in the sky track record-breaking storms to provide critical data and help communities prepare: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/record-breaking-hurricanes-tracked-noaa-satellites | NOAA Satellite and Information Service

Our hurricane tracks dataset has been updated to include the paths of all tropical cyclones from 1950 through 2020! The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season officially starts on June 1. The NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center will start issuing tropical weather outlooks two weeks earlier this year because named storms have formed before June 1 the last six seasons! Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/hurricane-tracks-cumulative-1950-2020/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere