Terms of Service

Weather information is not a safety instruction

This is the term that matters most, so it goes first. Nothing on this site is an official forecast, watch, warning, or evacuation order. Those come from the National Hurricane Center, your local National Weather Service office, and your county or parish emergency management agency.

If what you read here differs from what those agencies are saying, follow them. If they tell you to evacuate, evacuate, whatever this site shows.

Accuracy and availability

We reproduce and visualise public data from NOAA. That data can be delayed, revised, or briefly unavailable, and our own systems can fail. We make no warranty that information here is current, complete, or uninterrupted, and we show the time of the most recent update wherever we can so you can judge it yourself.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tropical Wave Weather is not liable for any loss or damage arising from reliance on this site. Decisions about property and personal safety during a storm must be based on official guidance.

Acceptable use

You may read, share, and link to anything here. Do not scrape the site in a way that degrades it for others, and do not present our output as an official government product.

Data attribution

Data from NOAA is a work of the United States government and is in the public domain. Coastline data comes from Natural Earth and is public domain. Our own written content, design, and code remain our property.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to the address on the contact page.