Resources for Hurricane Information

Now that we are into hurricane season, I thought I should post the website for the National Hurricane Center.

In addition to forecasts for active storms, they have good resources for hurricane awareness and hurricane history. Hint: don’t plan a cruise for September 10.

NOAA’s National Coastal Services Center has an interactive mapping application that allows you to search and display historic tropical cyclone data for the Atlantic basin and the east-central Pacific basin.

Let's not forget NOAA's list of hurricane names. If we get to K this season, it will be my name!

I've found two interesting hurricane resources recently, which I have not yet had time to explore but which might be interesting to the group:

An on-line class on hurricane preparedness (registration required); and

Tracking the Eye, a program for tracking hurricanes that also includes historical data on Atlantic hurricanes going way back.

And I would be a very bad Red Cross if I didn't mention that ARC has very good information on hurricane preparedness on its website.

Hurricane season is officially over (as of November 30), but the New York Times' Dot Earth blog had an interesting piece on Tropical Storm Olga, which made a late appearance.

The link is http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/december-surprise-sub-tropical-stor...

PS: We did reach K, but Karen never got beyond a Tropical Storm. A very quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic, for which even Disaster Buffs can be grateful.

Another free program of interest to disaster buffs (and others!). Think of Google Earth as done by NASA.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

In light of recent Hurricane Kyle, here's a link to the Canadian Hurricane Center: http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/chc1.html

Surely not the busiest meteorologists on the planet, but they have some nice resources on the site. In particular, the Glossary explains Extratropical Storms and Subtropical Storms rather well.

Great set of links! Thanks.

Here's a link to the xkcd comic on disaster voyeurism featuring hurricanes!
http://xkcd.com/611/