It's been pretty quiet on the eastern and southern fronts lately.
But the hurricane season, which runs through November, is just warming up.
Flooding on Route 35 in Hazlet from Tropical Storm Floyd in September 1999
September is the busiest month, according to the National Hurricane Center.
So here are some Web sites that I've compiled over the years to help you prepare for and track hurricanes in the Atlantic:
- National Hurricane Center links to other tropical cyclone Web sites.
- National Weather Service Mount Holly office.
- New Jersey Office of Emergency Management family preparedness for hurricanes and tropical storms.
- New Jersey coastal evacuation, hurricane storm surge and hurricane tracking maps.
- National Hurricane Center storm surge simulations.
- National Hurricane Center storm surge information.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency hurricane information.
- National Ocean Service storm surge and tidal information.
- U.S. Census Bureau information on hurricanes and tropical storms.
- Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey Coastal Monitoring Network.
- Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab.
- The Weather Channel Hurricane Season.
- AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center.
- Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist.
- New Jersey Hurricane Evacuation Study draft maps and data.
- Monmouth County Planning Board Coastal Evacuation Routes Study.
- National Hurricane Survival Initiative.
- Institute for Business & Home Safety.
- Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project.
File photo by Bob Bielk
