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N Carroll

Hurricane Tracker - weather.com - 2 views

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    Find Hurricanes in the Atlantic or Pacific with this site. (There are ads on this site.)
Elizabeth Resnick

Supercomputers help prepare New Orleans for Hurricane Isaac - ComputerworldUK.com - 5 views

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  • The computer models, which are being run at the Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology, help to inform emergency planners what roads will flood and neighborhoods cut off.
  • They are being used to help determine the best staging areas for positioning people and supplies needed for the recovery, said Twilley.
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  • "They can look down at neighborhood scale and say 'on this street along the levy we're going to have water this high,' and plan accordingly," Dietrich said.
  • Comparing the capability today with that at the time of Katrina, Dietrich said:
  • "I think we have a very strong understanding of how hurricane wave storm develop and how they can threaten a coastal environment."
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    the new supercomputer capabilities are much better now than they were during Katrina 7 years ago.  They help position people and supplies in the areas needed for the recovery, and determine which roads will flood.
Gustavo Echevarria

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted this year - CNN.com - 0 views

  • AccuWeather is the most recent organization to release its outlook, predicting Wednesday that the season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, will bring 13 named storms and eight hurricanes. In 2008, there were 16 named storms and eight hurricanes, five of which were major -- that is, classified as Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity -- with winds of 111 mph or higher.
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Marsha Ratzel

MapSkip - Places Have Stories! - 56 views

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    Great possibility for kids to use to keep track of hurricane activity as it happens.
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