Stormpulse Hurricane Tracking Mapping

What is Stormpulse and what does it do?

1. You can view hurricanes and hurricane season dating back to 1851 by entering in a URL such as: http://www.stormpulse.com/hugo, or http://www.stormpulse.com/1944.

2. Cloud cover (updated every 6 hours) is available back to 2005.

3. The map interface is meant to be like that of Google Maps–you can click or drag your mouse to pan, and use the + or - buttons at the top-left to zoom in and out.

4. Clicking a city when a storm is active provides you with wind probabilities for that location over the next 5 days. On the other hand, clicking on a city doesn’t do anything (yet) when the storm you have selected isn’t an active cyclone. However, it will draw a yellow line and provide the distance from the selected storm (and plotpoint) and the city over which you hover your mouse.

5. You can interact with storm data at the most granular level by clicking on a plotpoint in the storm’s track. This will jump you to that point in the storm’s history.

6. Satellite images update every half-hour or so. Data collected includes water vapor, infrared, rgb, visible, and more, but only displaying rgb and ir for now.