Tropical Cyclone Advisories released by the NHC/TPC are now available through RSS. This page is a brief summary of RSS, what it does and how you can use it. What is RSS? RSS has several meanings: Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, and RDF Site Summary where RDF in turn stands for Resource Data Framework. In any case it is a method of summarizing the latest news and information from a website in a lightweight form that can be easily read by any of a number of news readers or news aggregators. The idea is to give users the ability to quickly obtain the latest news and updates from a site in a headline or news digest format. This in turn helps during high-traffic periods by reducing the load on the servers. What do I need to use the RSS feeds? To use our RSS feeds, you need a feed reader or news aggregator installed on your computer. These are applications that can be set to read the feeds on a recurring basis, generally once an hour or so. Here is a list of feed readers and news aggregators from the Open Directory Project. Here is another list of feed readers and news aggregators. Once you have installed a feed reader or news aggregator, you simply add the NHC/TPC feed addresses to the list of feeds in the reader. The installation instructions for the readers will help you with that. If your newsreader or aggregator uses "auto-discovery" then simply enter the main NHC/TPC address (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov) and it will find the two feeds.