I too get confused at times.

I find it easier to login. Click on Forums. And scroll to the bottom of the page.
There are 3 options there.
Last 24 hours.
Last 48 hours.
Last 7 days.

The "Last 24 hours" will give you the current posts. And their thread location.

Easiest way for me to watch the board is to right click and "open in new window", the 2 most used threads.

That makes it easy for me to switch discussion modes. Although my brain often doesn't switch!
It's easy to post on the Wrong thread using that method. It might be better to read in that mode. Then close the thread that you don't want to post to.

When the board gets really busy with a landfalling storm or near landfall I may have 3 windows with flhurricane on them. And my data source windows open or minimized.

My thoughts... for what they are worth

edit: Note to all: Please limit graphics to " 600 pixels horizontal and 500 pixels vertical". In consideration of dialup users and those with small display monitors.

http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/faq.php#rules