Official Sources
The official agencies and supplemental tools behind BajaStorms. Always verify forecasts, watches, and warnings through these official government sources and local authorities.
Official Weather & Emergency Agencies
- NOAA / National Hurricane Center (NHC)Primary source for Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone advisories, cones, and warnings.
- NHC RSS FeedsText product and storm-wallet RSS feeds for active systems.
- NHC GIS DataActive tropical cyclone tracks, cones, and watches/warnings in GIS formats.
- NHC Active KML/KMZForecast track, cone of uncertainty, and wind probability layers.
- SMN / CONAGUA - Avisos de ciclón tropical (Pacífico)Official Mexican tropical cyclone advisories for the Pacific.
- CICESE-UALPCICESE-UALP oceanography - sea-surface temperature and ocean observations for Mexican seas in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- NOAA / NCEP GFS-Wave via NOMADSOffshore model guidance for combined wave height and swell height, period, and direction.
- PacIOOS WaveWatch III Global ForecastFree hourly global wave-model guidance used for the Marine Conditions card's 12-hour wave trend.
- SEMAR Oceanografía — MareasOfficial Mexican tide-station information and annual graphical and numerical tide predictions.
- NOAA CO-OPS Tide PredictionsOfficial high/low tide predictions for the exact Puerto San Carlos station used by the Magdalena Bay card.
- AVISO+ / CNES FES2022 Ocean TideFreely available global coastal tide model underlying point predictions for communities without an exact government station.
- DGFI-TUM EOT20 Ocean Tide ModelOpen ocean-tide model used for an exact Los Barriles point prediction after validation against nearby official and independent references.
- Protección Civil (BCS)State civil protection - official local instructions and alerts.
Satellite, Radar & Map Tools
Satellite
Waves & swell
Forecast models
Data & Technology Contributors
Open data and open-source tools that help power the maps, forecasts, and weather features on this site.
- TideCheck ↗
Commercially permitted tide API used at low cached volume for FES2022 point predictions where no exact SEMAR or NOAA station is available.
- MapLibre GL JS ↗
Open-source library that renders the interactive maps.
- OpenStreetMap ↗
Open map data behind the base maps. © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- CARTO ↗
Keyless base-map tiles that follow the site theme.
- Open-Meteo ↗
Free, open weather API for the daily city forecasts.
- MET Norway ↗
Norwegian Meteorological Institute weather data, used as a forecast fallback.
A quick note: BajaStorms is an independent information service, not an official weather or emergency agency. For official guidance during a storm, follow Protección Civil, SMN/CONAGUA, the NHC, and your local authorities.