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Track Hurricane Sandy

26 pointsby jdelsmanover 12 years ago

4 comments

kristopherover 12 years ago
Some UIX advice: Only Sandy is listed as a current storm, so that should be loaded by default instead of showing an empty map.
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srlover 12 years ago
What advantage does this gives over the graphics given by NOAA/NWS/NHC: <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?5-daynl?large#con...</a> ? The information provided is a proper subset of that given by NHC (obviously, since NHC is almost certainly the source), it doesn't seem to be as recent, and the presentation is somewhat unbalanced - why give a high-resolution map if the margin of error covers maryland, delaware, and half of virginia?
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jellicleover 12 years ago
Some advice? <i>I</i> know how to read hurricane forecast maps, but I suspect not too many people can. There's probably a market for an application/website that takes your location and provides a personalized, dumbed-down description of what you can expect, hour-by-hour, for the next few days.<p>Spoon feed it to people. Set it up so that 90-year-old Hungarian grandma who doesn't speak much English can figure out whether she should go down into the bomb shelter or not. Because Grandma can't read those hurricane forecast maps, I assure you.<p>easyhurricaneforecast.com awaits you...
septerrover 12 years ago
Nice. I have bookmarked this to keep an eye on the storm.