Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes

Probability of a Tropical Cyclone

This parameter estimates the probability of a tropical cyclone. It uses wind, precipitation and pressure data from ensemble forecasts.

prob_tropical_cyclone:p

Examples

Get the netcdf file for the evolution of the probability of tropical cyclones over the next nine days in six hour steps. Below is a gif generated with an external tool to visualize the content of the netcdf file.

https://api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-20T00:00:00ZP9D:PT6H/prob_tropical_cyclone:p/90,-180_-90,180:1,1/netcdf
An example for the cyclone probability in the South Pacific Ocean close to Christchurch, New Zealand, as a csv output. The example is the cyclone Gita which hits New Zealand around the 20^th of February 2018.

https://api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-20T06:00:00ZP2D:PT6H/prob_tropical_cyclone:p/-43.651782,173.383506/csv
```
validdate;prob_tropical_cyclone:p
2018-02-20T06:00:00Z;97.1
2018-02-20T12:00:00Z;100
2018-02-20T18:00:00Z;4
2018-02-21T00:00:00Z;4
2018-02-21T06:00:00Z;0
2018-02-21T12:00:00Z;0
2018-02-21T18:00:00Z;0
2018-02-22T00:00:00Z;0
2018-02-22T06:00:00Z;0
```