Stormpulse Hurricane Tracking Instructions

chris

In case anybody was not aware of how to use Stormpulse Hurricane Tracking, here is a set of instructions. Hope this helps somebody out. Below are the instructions and actual screenshots of Hurricane Bill using Stormpulse.

View Stormpulse here for current tropical activity:
http://www.capeweather.com/tropical-weather.html

INSTRUCTIONS ON INTERACTIVE STORM MAP BY STORMPULSE

HOW TO USE THE MAP
The interactive tracking map starts on a
storm’s current center location and
forecasted positions based on the latest
advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

The box at the bottom of the map shows
information for a selected point along the
storm’s path. This starts on the current center
location for the storm, as well as maximum
sustained wind speed, pressure, and
movement. The advisory number is shown to
the right of the name of the storm.
Abbreviations to the left of the storm name
indicate the type — “T.D.” (Tropical
Depression), “T.S.” (Tropical Storm), and
“Hurr.” (Hurricane).

Zoom in or out with the plus (+) and minus
(-) controls in the top-left corner.

To pan, click and drag the map or click the
arrows along the edges of the map.

MAP TOOLS
A legend in the top-right corner shows the color
key for different categories of tropical cyclones. The
colors go from white for a TD (Tropical Depression)
to red for an H5 (Major Hurricane, Category 5). A
scale beneath the legend correlates distance in
miles with distance on your computer screen.

A list of display options in the top-right-hand corner
allows you to selectively add layers to the map.
Historical Track will show the storm’s entire
path. When available, Clouds will load the latest
available global cloud layer.

Clicking More will bring up Wind Fields, Ocean
Buoys, Map Grid and Map Labels.

• Wind Fields will hide or show the reach of the storm’s
winds, displayed as circles around the selected point. These
circles represent Tropical Depression force (white), Storm
force (yellow), and Hurricane force (orange) winds.

• The Ocean Buoys option will request and load the
latest observations sourced from the National Data Buoy
Center. This may take a moment depending on your internet
connection speed. Ocean buoys appear as blue boxes that can
be clicked for more details. Land-based weather stations
appear as red boxes that can also be clicked for the latest
observations from that location.

• The Map Grid option will hide and show latitude and
longitude lines, including the equator and tropics.

• The Map Labels option will hide and show labels for
cities, countries, continents, oceans, and seas.

Instructions courtesy of:
http://www.clermonthog.com/INSTRUCTIONS...%20MAP.pdf

Below are a few examples:
Hurricane Bill with clouds turned on.

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Hurricane Bill with clouds and models turned on and partially zoomed out:

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Hurricane Bill with clouds turned off / map grid and models on:

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Chris
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