Mapping Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav Tracking Maps
- Firstcoastnews.com
- FLHurricane.com
- IbisEye
- MIBAZAAR
- MSNBC
- StormAdvisory (click on Gustav)
- Wundermap
Some are better than others; IbisEye, MSNBC and Wundermap are standouts. Via Anything Geospatial, Google Maps Mania, Kottke and La Cartoteca.
Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth
- Google Earth Blog on tracking Gustav in Google Earth: Frank’s weather and storm tracking tools collection includes a number of tools, including two hurricane trackers.
- See also Tropical Atlantic’s plots for Gustav, also for Google Earth. Via Google Earth Hacks.
More Maps
- Both the National Hurricane Center’s Active Storms page and Weather Underground have a number of different maps of Gustav. Via About.com Geography, Anything Geospatial. (Update: the NHC’s Gustav page.)
- A live Doppler feed from the Texas Natural Resources Information System. Via the Virtual Earth evangelist blog.
- Wired Science has maps of the potential storm surge.
- The USGS’s Hurricane Gustav Hydrologic Impacts Map shows which streamgages are at or above flood stage or at a historical high discharge, and shows the location of storm surge sensors. Via The Earth Is Square.
GIS Tools
NOAA’s nowCOAST GIS mapping portal and SHP file data for storm surge probabilities (zip archive); both via Anything Geospatial.
Anything Else?
Have I missed anything? Post links to other maps of Gustav in the comments.
For maps of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago, see the Hurricanes 2005 category.
Updates
Sept. 1, 10:45 AM:
- The Associated Press’s Global Storm Tracker; via Claire.
- Google has added a Hurricane Gustav folder in Google Earth; the folder contains “the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, a forecast track (also from the NHC), and a set of webcams in and around Louisiana, provided to us by Weather Bonk. We may be adding more information into the folder as the situation unfolds.”
- Via that Google LatLong post, this KML file from the Naval Research Laboratory embeds images and data along Gustav’s track.
- The Gustav Information Center has a map of evacuation centers and routes.
Sept. 1, 12:30 PM:
- Stormpulse’s Hurricane Gustav Tracking Map; via APB.
- Potential coastal change impact maps for Gustav (i.e., erosion and decomposition from the storm surge) from the USGS; via GeoCarta.
Sept. 2, 10:15 AM:
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