Improved opacity controls for evacuation zones
When evacuation zones are turned on in HURREVAC, there are now two buttons on the opacity slider in Quick Layers Options: one for the fill and one for the boundary. By default, the fill is set at 50% opacity and the boundary is set at 20% opacity. Depending on what you are trying to analyze or display, it may be beneficial to adjust these levels.
Below is a hypothetical example where we compare the storm surge inundation hazard alongside evacuation zones to help us consider which areas may need to evacuate. The zone outlines were made more prominent (100%) while the zone fill was adjusted to be more transparent (25%). This example also made the MEOW Surge brighter (100%) and layered it over the zones. But depending on the complexity of the outlines and default colors of the zones you are working with, other opacity and layering choices may work better.
Note that changes made in Quick Layers are temporary (not associated with your user settings) so it is necessary to make opacity adjustments each time you use HURREVAC.
Storm Simulator wind probabilities discontinued
The experimental step that generated downstream wind products was discontinued on May 1, 2025 due to resource constraints. The removal of this optional step does not affect the rest of Storm Simulator. In other words, it is still possible to make a simulated storm track and forecast, just without map layers for wind probabilities or wind watches and warnings. All simulated storms with associated wind products that were saved prior to May 1, 2025, are still available.