This page supplies graphical forecasts from numerical weather models. Global models with imagery for the entire world include the ECMWF, GFS, CMC, NAVGEM, and their associated ensemble prediction systems. Mesoscale models for the United States include the NAM in various forms and the Canadian RGEM. The mesoscale hurricane models HWRF and GFDL are run on tropical disturbances and storms. Climate models like the CFSv2, CanSIPS, and NMME provide monthly to seasonal forecasts.These products are generated using data from the NOAA Operational Model Archive Distribution System , the Meteorological Service of Canada , the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment , the Climate Prediction Center , the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts , and the Japan Meteorological Agency . Products for each model are generated and updated live as data becomes available. 
 
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 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 403rd Wing, Air Force Reserve Command 
 
 Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi 
 
 The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes – since 1944. The ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. 
 
 NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland, Florida 
 
 The Aircraft Operations Center is a Center of the NOAA Marine and Aviation Office. The airplanes of the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) are flown in support of NOAA's mission to promote global environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship of the Earth's environment. NOAA's aircraft operate throughout the United States and around the world; over open oceans, mountains, coastal wetlands, and Arctic pack ice. These versatile aircraft provide scientists with airborne platforms necessary to collect the environmental and geographic data essential to their research. 

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– Expect Hurricane Irma to dominate the news cycle over the next few days—meaning it may be difficult to sort through the deluge to find the specific, accurate info you need. The New York Times notes that the proliferation of news, especially on social media, can offer "misleading ... individual data points." Instead, it advises, combine these resources for the most well-rounded storm watch: The National Hurricane Center offers full advisories every six hours and shows the storm's projected center of circulation and the accompanying "cone of uncertainty." While the paper warns about putting too much stock in any one weather forecast model, it says the most trustworthy one tends to be the model from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. "Spaghetti plots," which compile various forecast tracks, can also be helpful. Science geeks will be most intrigued by reconnaissance data culled from Hurricane Hunter aircraft, which hurl instrument packets called dropsondes directly into and around the storm's swirl. Satellite imagery is also a "pretty safe way" to keep tabs on Irma: either the "visible" kind (what one can see with the naked eye from space) or the "infrared" variety, which gauges the temperature of the cloud tops. Check out the Times for more suggestions, including some informative blogs by popular meteorologists.