Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a staple of every hurricane season: the forecast "cone of uncertainty," which warns the public of the projected path of a ...

The Cone of Uncertainty, officially named the Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast Cone, is a graphic issued by the National Hurricane Center once a region of interest becomes a tropical storm. The area ...

The “cone of uncertainty” map that the National Hurricane Center uses to communicate risk as storms form is getting some updates this year. The cone, which shows the probable path of the storm’s ...

The cone of uncertainty used by the National Hurricane Center has shrunk dramatically since 2003 as forecasting science improves. Every year, it’s recalculated based on tracking errors from the past ...