Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to catch the latest updates on developing storms. But why wait for the weatherman to tell you what is going on when you can check for yourself online? One of the best places to do that is Stormpulse. (Google Earth is another one). Stormpulse shows active hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic. And the graphics are better than TV because you can play around with them.
You can turn on layers to show projected paths and historical tracks. The severity of the storm is color coded from Tropical Depression to Category 5 Hurricane. You can see all active hurricanes at once, drag the map around, or click on a specific storm. The site also offers satellite pictures and storm news.
Data is pulled from the National Hurricane Center and other places. The site has storm data going back to 1851, soyou can see the paths and intensity of previous hurricanes. There is even an API for embedding Stormpulse maps on other sites.
great functions ! Is this real time? I put it to
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This is a cool site - I’ve been referencing it a lot over the last few days re: Ike (I live in Nassau, Bahamas). I like that it shows ALL of the projected paths, and not just the NHC prediction.
Cool~ and Is this real time?
要是实时的东西就好了，不知道是不是呢。
Yes, it is real time. The data is pulled from the Nation Hurricane Center right after every update.
Great application and it is not powered by Google Maps! In addition, it is done in Flash! It would be great if Stormpulse allowed for higher zoom levels. Also, it would be great to import their dynamic data ad add it to http://www.umapper.com maps.
Twitter would be the first thing people will use to track down anything!
WOW, that’s an in depth site! I’ve always been fascinated with storms and especially hurricanes. I’ll definitely have to bookmark this one.
Ok now this is some really cool stuff right here. And having lived in the Hurricane belt in Jamaica for decades, man, stormpulse is wicked, interactive, deeply informative and sophisticated. I’m sorry Michael, but I’m gonna steal the idea of this post and do one for my Caribbean subscribers. I figure if you like in the Hurricane Belt might as well be better informed and have even a little interactive fun.
holy incredible site!!
Cannot believe you were late on this one, I read this days ago http://www.rev2.org/2008/09/02.....he-clouds/
better late than never
I agree, and thanks for showing it to everyone, it could help save some lives
Not to turn this into a pissing content, but we were talking about it days before you noncopier: http://tvlampsnbulbs.com/2008/.....h-updates/
The web works - sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but it works.
And not to continue not turning this into a pissing contest or anything (and by writing that thereby guaranteeing that I’ve done just that), but I first wrote about Stormpulse in April 2007. But I’m a longtime fan, not to mention a current colleague with one of its creators at his day job. Really, who cares who spotted it first? Just be happy they made such an awesome resource that actually meets a real-world need.
Nice one.
Hope these guys will come up with a way to make money in non-hurricane season too…
This shit is awesome.
Also, I had no idea another hurricane was headed for Florida. Great.
Nice functionality… nice to have so much in one place, but the UI is kinda busy…
“Busy UI” is something we’ve been working to calm down for a while now. Constructive criticism welcome (or non-constructive, and we’ll try to read between the lines).
this would be great for all weather phenomena like snowstorms, hail, etc.
MSN StormChecker is better!
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It’s nice to be our own pretend meteorologist.
This site rocks!
Very nice site! Any relation to surfpulse.com? Some folks want to get away from the storms, others want to be there when they hit. Same data, different audiences.
CG
Nice application.
Really nice site…..very indepth!
Or just use weatherunderground.com ?
This is a great program. It’s definitely useful, especially in the wake of storms.
Alvira Khan
Florida Atlantic University
FAU Alumni
This is awesome! I live on the East Coast and sometimes we get large hurricanes and because I love storms - I am always following it on the news. Now, I can go to this site to track em. Yeay!
This is a really nice website, well built and not crowded with ads…
This site is quite good, though not as many options as http://www.ibiseye.com
Also Ibiseye has more historical data it seems.
This is very interesting
Love the site, living in Florida means you are constantly checking the sites for data data data, hard to look at noaa after looking at wunderground.com and wunderground seems so … 2000…
One layer that would be very useful is to over isobar data, the real drivers of big system, what we were taught in school, and yet no one seems to show the big weather systems that are pushing these hurricanes around.
keep up the great work… oh yeah, how are you making money on this?