TW561 Meteorological Bureau

TW561MB is a weather agency founded by theweatherman561, in late October 2018. Its primary purpose is tracking and issuing advisories on real life cyclones occurring in and around North America, generally around the contiguous United States. More specifically, the area of responsibility is as such: between 105°W and 65°W, and between 30°N and 50°N. Certain cyclones may be tracked slightly beyond this area.



Cyclone Measurement Scale (CMS)
When issuing advisories on storms, TW561MB uses the specially developed Cyclone Measurement Scale, or CMS. This particular system measures storms based on their pressure, rather than wind speed. Storms are assigned a name once they achieve Cylonic Storm status (more information in the “Names” section).

It is quite rare for a storm to reach Category 1 status, and anything from a Category 3 can have catastrophic impacts. The lowest pressure recorded in an extratropical cyclone in the contiguous US was 955 MB, or a Category 4, on the CMS.

Current Advisories
Current Surface Analysis: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/sfc/namussfc00wbg.gif

17z Oct 28, 2018 - Weather Roundup

- The TW561MB is issuing advisories on Deep Cyclonic Storm Anettud.

Names
Names are generated upon the formation of a new cyclonic storm. They are created using a manual name generator at the TW561 Meteorological Bureau. Because of this, names are not cycled, and a new (random) name is decided as soon as a new storm forms. If the entire alphabet of names is exhausted, the naming will reset to ‘A’.