What Storm Studio does
Storm Studio turns the official forecast for a tropical storm into a finished video — map, track, cone, wind and graphics — ready for broadcast, a website or social media.
You choose a storm. The app draws the rest.
Where the storms come from
Every live storm comes straight from the official advisories issued by the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. When a new advisory is published, Latest Advisory in the Data panel brings it in.
Past storms come from the historical records (HURDAT2 and IBTrACS), so you can also make a video of a storm from years ago — to compare with one happening now, or to show how a famous storm moved.
Storm Studio never invents data. If a video shows a replay of a past storm, or test data, it says so on the video itself. A live forecast always carries its source and the time of its advisory.
What you can make
- A video of any active or past storm, from a few seconds to five minutes long.
- The same project as a widescreen TV picture, a vertical phone video or a square social post, without building it twice.
- Graphics in more than twenty languages, including Japanese and Arabic, laid out right to left where the language needs it.
- Videos with your own logo, intro and outro, music and voice-over.
- A new video every time a new advisory comes out, made automatically while you are away.
Where your work lives
Storm Studio runs in your web browser, but your projects and videos stay on your own computer. Nothing you make is stored on our servers. The app only fetches the storm data; everything else happens on your machine, using your computer's graphics card to draw each frame.
A computer with Chrome, Edge or Brave. Storm Studio writes H.264 video, which those browsers can encode and Firefox and Safari cannot. A recent graphics card makes long and 4K videos faster, but is not required.
What next
- Your first video — fifteen minutes, start to finish
- Finding your way around — the parts of the editor