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Thursday, July 21, 2005

tropical cyclone websites

Since I'm in Florida I have to pay attention to nearly any tropical wave or disturbance during this time of the year. There are two websites I go to for such information:

The National Hurricane Center is the official website for hurricane predictions and tracking in the North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The information on this page is updated no less than every six hours.

Penn State hosts a Tropical Cyclone Genesis Potential Fields page. PSU gathers various tropical weather forecasting models (from Florida State, the U.S. Navy, Canada and the National Weather Service). When a tropical storm has formed it's cool to check out if the various models agree on what the cyclone may do. The models are usually updated twice day at noon and midnight GMT.

So when Tropical Storm Franklin develops sometime over the next few weeks... you'll know what sites I'm surfing over to.

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