--- title: The 2026 Tropical Cyclone Observation Record · Tomorrow.io description: Every named tropical cyclone on Earth, April to July 2026 — twenty-three storms across six basins, each with its intensity climb and every microwave sounder pass. --- ![Tomorrow.io](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/assets/logo-white.png) THE RECORD FLEET**—** The comparison fleet — which public satellites count against the Tomorrow Constellation The Tomorrow Constellation **—** : **—** public looks**—** Reset to the default six The record · every named cyclone, one clock StormBAVI · CAT 5SINLAKU · CAT 5GENEVIEVE · CAT 5MEKKHALA · CAT 4MAILA · CAT 4VAIANU · CAT 3FAUSTO · CAT 2INDUSA · CAT 2NOUL · CAT 2JANGMI · CAT 1ELIDA · TSDOLPHIN · TSHIGOS · TSMAYSAK · TSBERTHA · TSCHAN-HOM · TSAMANDA · TSARTHUR · TSBORIS · TSCRISTINA · TSDOUGLAS · TSHAGUPIT · TSKUJIRA · TS The complete watch record of the storm’s whole life, on its own clock. How this is measured▾ ## The record, mapped. Every microwave look pinned to the storm’s best-track position, and what the sounders actually saw at each category line it crossed. **Hover any look on the track** to open that pass. One clock, two readings — top to bottom: 1 WHAT WAS THE STORM DOING?Best-track wind, colored by category — dots are real fixes. A **pennant** marks landfall; the shaded strip is time over land. 2 WHO WAS LOOKING?Every look taken — the Tomorrow Constellation in blue, the public fleet’s in gray. The gray band is their longest stretch without one. TIME · UTC — STORM — AGE OF PICTURE · PUBLIC SATELLITES ALONE — AGE OF PICTURE · WITH TOMORROW.IO — CLOSE ## The looks themselves. Channel Window Water vapor ## What those looks retrieve. ## The freshest look at each category line. **The read.** Against the six US and European satellites that fly its own instrument, the constellation returned more than twice the looks in both storms — Sinlaku 233:101, Bavi 164:75. But the count swings with scope and isn’t the point. Two things held in both storms, independently: the longest stretch between public-satellite looks fell mid-climb — Sinlaku’s spanning the CAT 3 and CAT 4 lines, Bavi’s at CAT 5 — with Tomorrow.io’s satellites looking through it (10 looks inside one, 10 inside the other); and the combined picture stayed markedly fresher (median gap 33 m vs 49 m alone; 35 m vs 46 m). The evidence, line by line: at each Saffir–Simpson threshold, the most recent look each side had. Where Tomorrow.io’s look was the fresher one, it added early warning — the minutes it bought are at right. It doesn’t happen at every crossing, and both looks are shown regardless. ## When no one else was looking. ## The record, mapped. ## Every look. [![](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/scans/all/bavi/scan_000.png)![](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/scans/all/bavi/scan_020.png)![](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/scans/all/bavi/scan_044.png)![](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/scans/all/bavi/scan_068.png)![](https://info.tomorrow.io/hubfs/cyclone-record/scans/all/bavi/scan_092.png) Every look — the contact sheet All the microwave looks that put Bavi in frame, one row per day. OPEN THE FULL ARCHIVE →](https://info.tomorrow.io/the-cyclone-record?storm=bavi#allscans) ## One constellation, analyzed against the fleet that flies its instrument. Tomorrow.io’s constellation is analyzed against the following satellites — the operational **cross-track microwave sounders of the United States and Europe**, the same instrument class TMS flies, each pass independently verifiable against the NASA archive: SHOW THE FLEET · EVERY COUNT ▾ What the storm did where it made landfall — reported by top-tier media and science desks. Sources are limited to established international media and scientific institutions, and every card links to the original. Where a desk filed reporting rather than photography, the card carries the reporting: the only images either outlet published were satellite views of the storm offshore, and this is the part of the record that happened on the ground. **Method & candor.** A “look” is any satellite overpass within a uniform 1,000 km of the storm center — SGP4 on epoch-matched orbital elements, computed the same way for every satellite. The comparison is analyzed against the satellites listed above — the cross-track microwave sounders of the United States and Europe, the same instrument class as TMS, each pass verifiable against NASA’s CMR archive. The climb is the IBTrACS/JTWC best track: dots are real fixes, the line between them is interpolation. The window is each storm’s full life — first fix to last — except for a storm still running, whose window ends at the last fix the best-track carries and which says so on its own card rather than borrowing the finished storms’ language; the time axis spans it, while the wind scale and the picture-age scale are shared between the two storms so the comparison is on one ruler. “Age of picture” counts from the most recent look, reset at each pass. A gap between passes is orbital geometry, not a fault. The last-look columns show both sides’ freshness the same way at every crossing; the early-warning column counts only what Tomorrow.io’s look added, which is why it’s blank where existing public satellites had the fresher look (Bavi’s Cat 5 line among them). Where the record favours existing public satellites — several of Bavi’s category crossings among them — it stands side by side here just the same. Built 2026-08-11 12:46Z from the agency best track (IBTrACS/JTWC) and the orbital record of every satellite named here.