2026 Global Tropical Cyclone Discussion

[Mike S]

Rachel is yet another massive storm. Expect major by tonight, even so. Zoomed out for scale.

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And we may be watching yet another right behind this one. GFS shows a threat to the west coast of Mexico on the one behind Rachel.

edit: I initially put Euro but realized I was looking at the GFS. The Euro is much less aggressive with this threat right now.

 

[N0mz]

And we may be watching yet another right behind this one. GFS shows a threat to the west coast of Mexico on the one behind Rachel.

edit: I initially put Euro but realized I was looking at the GFS. The Euro is much less aggressive with this threat right now.

The one behind it looks pretty impressive on the Google model

 

[Kds86z]

 

[SouthFLwx]

it's rare to get triple hurricanes simultaneous in a season twice, let alone once.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Atlantic]

I’m sorry, I don’t usually call out things like this here, but in no way, shape or form is Typhoon Choi-wan a 95 kt (110 mph) typhoon right now, and even crazier, Dvorak came in at T #5.5 on the typhoon.

 

[Atlantic]

Here is the same pic in the Dvorak colors

 

[SouthFLwx]

Here is the same pic in the Dvorak colors

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looks amazing now, would say that it's a cat 5

 

[Atlantic]

It looks better than it did last night, and the JTWC is being more reasonable with the intensity now

 

[Atlantic]

12Z was revised from 135 kts to 140 kts, making Choi-wan the fourth Category 5 Super Typhoon of the WPAC season

 

[akt1985]

It’s looking like no names in the Atlantic/Gulf will be retired after this season. It will be interesting to see if any Eastern Pacific names get retired after this season is over.

 

[Atlantic]

It’s looking like no names in the Atlantic/Gulf will be retired after this season. It will be interesting to see if any Eastern Pacific names get retired after this season is over.

That would be the first time since 2023 that no names got retired in the Atlantic