Tropical Storm Debby is making for an eventful time in Florida. The flooding (over 12 inches in some areas in a day), the wind (over 50 mph in some parts), the high tides (3 feet over normal in coastal areas including our canal), the many tornadoes have caused considerable damage.
But it is impressive how much technology is available to monitor the storm and its effects on neighborhoods.
For a macro view I turned to the National Hurricane Center’s tracking service. An unusual thing about this storm compared to others we see this time of year is how slow moving it is (the close together dots show it will be hanging around for a few days in the Gulf)
Klystron 9 is our go-to website to monitor local weather. It provides nice state wide and local county views. As I wrote here the graphics suummarize a dual Polarimetric radar, Klystron tube Pulse Compression technology and a 1.25 million watt transmitter.
The meteorologists on most TV channels were pointing out classic “hook echo signatures” on Doppler radar to predict tornado cell formations down to streets and neighborhoods.
Our local utility offers an outage map. Having suffered through outages in past for days, this is no fun at all.
The major hiighway/street closures show up nicely on this TBO map. In the next wave, we should see real time, crowdsourced updates to Google Maps and other mobile maps of street flooding.
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