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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.032%
of 1.4M followers
Per impression
0.545%
80K views on a typical post
Reach
5.92%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
436
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
10 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

    2.0K4404395282K viewsView on X
  • 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).

    1.5K37239139226K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.5K3602748200K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    1.5K3061754175K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.4K3083482192K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.3K2701029139K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.2K2971642204K viewsView on X
  • 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

    986234839113K viewsView on X
  • 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

    9492161536130K viewsView on X
  • 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

    9062051678176K viewsView on X

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

#edouard#dolly#five#cristobal#al92

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.

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