Here's where you can track everything from active storms to areas we are monitoring in the Atlantic, eastern and central Pacific basins this hurricane season.

The map above shows any systems that the National Hurricane Center are watching for possible development in the Pacific Basin, along with a current infrared satellite image.

Pacific

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Other areas to watch

This is the same map used above to highlight areas the NHC is watching for potential development, but zoomed into the area that is closer to Hawaii, labelled Invest 90E by the NHC.

Spaghetti models

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Sea surface temperatures

Pacific tracks so far this season

Atlantic

Wind shear

These are areas of strong wind shear, the difference in wind speed and direction with height — are shown in purple. High wind shear is hostile to mature tropical cyclones and those trying to develop.

(MORE: What is wind shear)

Dry, dusty air

Another nemesis of tropical systems is dry air.

In hurricane season, plumes of dust-laden air stream across the basin from Africa's Sahara Desert, as you can see in the map below. This sinking, dry air squelches thunderstorm development, the building blocks of tropical storms and hurricanes.

So areas in the brown shading below are generally unfavorable for development.

Sea surface temperatures

Atlantic tracks so far this season

These are the tracks of systems that were at least tropical or subtropical storms, so far in the Atlantic Basin.

Season activity compared to average

Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, is a metric that measures the total energy produced by tropical storms and hurricanes over a given period, accounting for both how strong they were and how long they lasted.

It's another measure meteorologists use to gauge how active a hurricane season has been.