Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse approaching in hurricane form? Use these four hurricane websites to prepare

http://ibiseye.com

A monster site created by the dynamic duo of Maurice Tamman and Charlie Szymanski at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It’s filled with deep historical data, Google maps and offers an full-screen experience.

Storm Advisory

http://stormadvisory.org

A clean, basic Google map mashup of storms, their strengths and paths. It gets the job done.

Storm Pulse

http://www.stormpulse.com

This is just a beautiful site all around. Beyond it’s aesthetic appeal, it’s brilliantly engineered and doesn’t use Google maps. Nor Yahoo maps. Nor Microsoft Live Vista Longhorn Maps (or whatever they’re calling it now). All the visual and storm data is automated from NASA and NOAA. There’s even (semi) live clouds formations! It’s just remarkable.
Full disclosure: Storm Pulse is a side project of programming ninja, Matt Wensing (half of the Storm Pulse team), who is now a coworker at my day job and quite a dope g if I do say so myself.

Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com

Not nearly as pretty as Storm Pulse but the grandfather and an immense hive of information. Especially Jeff Master’s weather blog.

Am I missing any awesomeness in other sites out there? Please let me know in the comments!

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Published:: 08.15.07 / 12am

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Matt Wensing 08.15.07 / 5am

Thanks for the mention, Will! I like the screenshot (visual) comparison. Now if only I really were a programming ninja. *sigh*

Jeff 08.15.07 / 9am

Jeff Masters is THE source for hurricane info on the net. The guy knows more about them and gives more detailed, accurate information than anyone out there. Best yet, he does it without the hyperbole found in broadcast news. Beware of the comments on his blog. They think they know as much as Masters and think they can see the beginnings of a massive, earth-killing hurricane in a thunderstorm 3 miles off the coastline. If you realize they are pretty much always wrong, it makes for entertaining reading.

William M. Hartnett 08.15.07 / 9pm

Did the famous Journerdism traffic bump take down stormadvisory.org? It’s been down all day.

I like to check outthe NHC’s own site, primarily because I find the all-caps forecast discussions VERY SOOTHING AND NOT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT ALARMING.

Aaron W. VanWieren 08.16.07 / 5am

I am amazed at how much thought was put into the IBISEYE website and interface and they even got the presentation of spatial data pretty much correct. They obviously were trying to build a useful tool for people to use. Have not tried the others out yet, lookng forward to it.
Thanks for the links.

Aaron W. VanWieren
http://www.gisdevcafe.com

Mo Tamman 08.17.07 / 7pm

What is this? What passes as a watering hole among modern-day journo. Matt, I love your site and wouldn’t mind sharing a real beer or three sometime to talk about some of the choices you made.

Cheers,
Mo

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