A friend on facebook turned me on to MSNBC’s Hurricane Tracker.
I’ve been visiting the National Hurricane Center and various other sites to get a view of what storms were in the Atlantic and where they were projected to go. I can say categorically that the MSNBC site is the most useful. That is due in large part to the fact that it is utterly simple and tells me exactly what I want to know:
- What storms are out there
- Where are they projected to go
- How strong are they now and will they be
Is it really, really accurate? No. But I don’t need it to be…
MSNBC… if you are listening – grant NOAA (which is where you get the underlying data that drives this tool anyway) a perpetual license to use for this and let them put it on the National Hurricane Center landing page.
I liked that one too. It was created by Stamen Designs, the same S.F. design firm that did the Digg visualizations. Their MSNBC hurricane tracker seems a lot more useful than the Digg ones 🙂
BTW, also check out stormpulse.com. I found it just after finding the msnbc hurricane tracker, and I turn to stormpulse.com instead of msnbc now.