National Hurricane Center engagement report
@NHC_Atlantic - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 436 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 80K times each, and 0.545% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 5.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #edouard, #dolly, #five.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #edouard, #dolly, #five.
Compared with accounts its own size
National Hurricane Center's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 44% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.032%, National Hurricane Center sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 8, 20265.9x their median
Sat, Aug. 8 UPDATE: We are now following the potential development of 2 systems in the tropical Atlantic during the upcoming week. The development window is tight due to strong upper-level winds nearby, and the chance for tropical cyclone formation is currently low for both systems. Continue to monitor trends with us at https://t.co/Wq6ZtKfHp9.
- Aug 27, 20264.7x their median
NHC will initiate advisories on Tropical Storm Dolly (formerly AL96) located in the central Tropical Atlantic, at 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC).
- Aug 10, 20264.5x their median
August 10 evening update: NHC is still watching 3 disturbances over the basin. The easternmost system is likely to become a tropical depression during the latter portion of the week. Remember every outlook is at https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb https://t.co/K9jDSvSJx7
- Aug 11, 20264.3x their median
8 AM EDT: We are monitoring several areas in the Atlantic basin for tropical development. There is a high (70%) chance of development associated with a tropical wave in the central basin (red area). Elsewhere, a short-lived system may spin up over the next day or so in the subtropics (yellow area). Check https://t.co/Wq6ZtKfHp9 for the latest information.
- Aug 27, 20264.3x their median
Tropical Storm #Dolly Advisory 1 (11 AM AST, Thu Aug 27): Tropical Storm Dolly Forms Over the Central Tropical Atlantic. Interests in the Leeward Islands Should Monitor. https://t.co/GrztW6mQJV
- Aug 13, 20263.6x their median
NHC is monitoring two areas in the Atlantic for potential tropical development, #AL92 🔴 which has a high chance (80%) of development, and #AL94 🟠 which has a medium chance (50%) of development. Check https://t.co/GrztW6mQJV for the latest information. https://t.co/QDKPkGPG77
- Aug 9, 20263.6x their median
Aug 9- 8p EDT: NHC is monitoring 3 areas of interest across the basin. The easternmost system could become a tropical depression during the latter portion of the week, though nothing is an immediate land threat. The latest outlook is at https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb https://t.co/J2ddqumpcB
- Aug 12, 20262.9x their median
Aug 12 8AM EDT: Plenty of activity continues! The central tropical Atlantic system (#AL92) is likely to become a trop depression (TD) in a day or two, and a short-lived trop storm could form in the high-latitude central Atlantic (#AL93) thru Wed. For more information: https://t.co/Wq6ZtKfHp9
- Aug 11, 20262.8x their median
Aug 11 8p EDT: Busy for early August! The central tropical Atlantic system (#AL92) is likely to become a trop depression (TD) in a day or two, and a short-lived TD or trop storm could form in the high-latitude central Atlantic (#AL93) thru Wed. More: https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb https://t.co/eEIUVjpyk3
- Aug 8, 20262.8x their median
Saturday, Aug. 8: A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa on Tuesday. Some development is possible during the middle to latter part of next week while the system moves westward over the eastern or central tropical Atlantic. More info: https://t.co/Wq6ZtKfHp9
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 436 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 80K times each, and 0.545% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 5.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #edouard, #dolly, #five.
- What is National Hurricane Center's engagement rate on X?
- National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) has an engagement rate of 0.032%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,351,904 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.032%, National Hurricane Center sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @NHC_Atlantic have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @NHC_Atlantic post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.