My Hurricane Early-Warning System

September marks the climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season[^1], when tropical cyclone activity is at its highest. For people like myself, living in the Caribbean means being on a constant lookout for tropical weather. Even the weakest tropical wave could mean days of power loss, which for me means days of not being able to work, and if we get a repetition of Hurricane Maria, it could mean months without electricity and losing my job. Not-so-fun fact: Puerto Rico has the record for the longest blackout in US history: 11 months. Almost a decade later, I still worry I’ll lose power when it rains, and occasionally, I do.[^2] Being on the lookout has turned me into something of a Weather Nerd. For that, I have various resources. The first one is WeatherNerds.org. While the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) Tropical Weather Outlook identifies disturbances that could develop into tropical cyclones within the next seven days, WeatherNerds lets you look directly at weather-model…