Ed. Note- The National Hurricane Center is offering free emailed text advisories of daily tropical forecasts for the North Atlantic and Pacific waters in English and Spanish that appear just as they do on the daily updated pages of the NHC site. This service offers the opportunity to receive hurricane advisory communication at a resonable enough cost to be used by any mariner at home and/or at sea.

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Tropical Cyclone text products released by the NHC are available by email. This form allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe to any of the ten lists currently offered. The lists are arranged by region (Atlantic and E. Pacific), with the choice of receiving just the Public Advisories and any updates or position estimates, along with the Tropical Weather Outlook, just the Forecast/Advisories and any updates or position estimates, along with the Tropical Weather Outlook, or you can opt for the full suite of Tropical Cyclone advisories and the Tropical Weather Outlook.

Please Note: This is an experimental service. Interruptions or duplications in email deliveries while we develop the system are to be expected. Notices will be sent if any extended interruptions are encountered.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: We are currently accepting subscriptions to the advisory email lists, but we ask you to only subscribe to the lists you absolutely "must have". Because our resources are limited, we have had to limit the number of new subscribers and number of messages being sent. When a "forecast package" is released, it can generate 250,000+ emails and we want to facilitate timely delivery to all subscribers. If we must impose future limits, a notice will be posted.

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The following products are available via email for the indicated areas during the hurricane season (June 1 through November 30 for the Atlantic, May 15 through November 30 for the Eastern Pacific):

• Forecast/Advisory (Atlantic and E Pacific)
• Public Advisory (Atlantic always, E Pacific only when land is threatened)
• Discussion (Atlantic and E Pacific)
• Probabilities (Atlantic only)
• Update (Atlantic and E Pacific...intermittent)
• Position Estimate (Atlantic and E Pacific...intermittent)
• Special Tropical Disturbance Statement (Atlantic and E Pacific...intermittent)
• Tropical Weather Outlook (Atlantic and E Pacific 4 times a day)*

Spanish translations of the Advisories and Outlooks courtesy of the NWS San Juan Weather Forecast Office

Please note that there is overlap in the lists, so that, for example, subscribing to both the FULL and PUBLIC ADVISORIES ONLY lists for the same region will generate some duplicate email notices. It is suggested that you subscribe to only one list per region and possibly the Outlook list for that region if you wish to receive all of the Tropical Weather Outlooks as well.

Important Note: the Atlantic Full list receives a large amount of mail per day when one or more tropical cyclones are active in the Atlantic. For most users the Atlantic (Public Advisories and updates ONLY) list is probably adequate.

www.nhc.noaa.gov/signup.shtml