Thursday, September 11, 2008

Slickest Wx Site Yet?

As the hurricane approaches Texas (crossed fingers for the unlucky people in its path!), take a look at this:

http://www.stormpulse.com/

Play with the options on the right. Wow, is this thing slick or what?

About the only real negatives I've seen (so far) are that the abundant use of colors--- while gorgeous--- sometimes obscure the raw information intended to be conveyed by color codes, such as the forecast intensity of the storm. That's not so good. Plus, the pages don't auto-update. Some other Wx sites auto-refresh from time to time so you can leave a page open, and it'll always be reasonably current. With Stormpulse, you have to manually refresh. Not a huge deal--- and they could easily fix it--- but something you should know if you want to use the site for ongoing storm tracking.

Not perfect, but an interesting addition to an armchair meteorologist's arsenal.

To those in the Corpus Christi to Galveston areas: Good luck, my friends!

3 comments:

  1. Really cool. Thanks Fred.

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  2. Great find! Its no wonder they have problems figuring out exactly where a hurricane will go, so many different possibilities.

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  3. That's a very impressive weather map. Thanks for pointing it out.

    It looks like the map updates every 3 hrs.

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