William M. Hartnett

Tropical Storm Fay, likely to become Hurricane Fay, couldn’t be headed toward Florida at a more inconvenient time. Not only are most South Florida schools scheduled to start Monday, but my employer is scheduled to begin a relatively small number of layoffs, too. Relative to the nearly 300 employees who took buyouts and worked their [...]

Tropical Storm Edouard popped up off the coast of Louisiana yesterday, and the current forecast has it pointed directly at Galveston, with a landfall tomorrow morning at just under hurricane strength. (Totally coincidental that The Galveston County Daily News was featured in this week’s edition of Paper View Monday, by the way. My nose for [...]

Great news for those of us here in hurricane country: Stormpulse, the tropical weather tracking site built by colleague Matt Wensing and his programming partner in Chicago, is now providing its awesome hurricane mapping technology to the storm section of The Palm Beach Post. And just in time, too, because the tropics are really heating [...]

How annoyed am I about this forecast track for Tropical Storm Bertha? Very. Very annoyed about this forecast track for Tropical Storm Bertha. Follow it and all the other hurricane season fun at colleague Matt’s Stormpulse.com, the best hurricane tracking site around.
UPDATE: Feeling less annoyed following the Sunday night update.

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To me, of course. As I mentioned the other day, the hurricane-tracking site Stormpulse recently introduced user forecasting. Not long after, Hurricane Felix provided the first opportunity to give the system a test drive. I’m happy to report that, using a carefully reasoned meteorological approach I like to call “monkey bashing away at a keyboard,” [...]

Hurricane-tracking site Stormpulse just added user profiles and human-consensus forecasting, a potentially cool feature that I could try to explain, but which you would be far better off just reading about over this way. Needless to say, the wisdom of crowds relies on attracting a crowd, so check out Stormpulse now and try your hand [...]

Ever wanted to make your own sweet hurricane-tracking web site, like Stormpulse? Ha! Best get started studying up on Python, MySQL, Apache, FreeBSD, etc. in that case. But if you can settle for simply reading how the people actually behind a hurricane-tracking web site did it, check out the latest post on the Stormpulse blog: [...]

Ah, another summer in paradise: NOAA predicts above normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. And don’t miss the always entertaining hurricane season edition of the Census Bureau’s Facts for Features.

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Not at all happy about this news. We’re still in the single digits of May, fer cryin’ out loud. Hurricanes like 2004, drought like 2001 AND wildfires like 1998? This should be a great summer.
In other news, I’ll be back to regularly scheduled blogging by next week. Maybe.

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You already know about the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s IbisEye, but have you seen Stormpulse.com? (I found it via the Florida GIS Data blog, which spotted it at GISuser.com.) There’s a Stormpulse blog, too, where the developers are revealed to be “Matt and Brad.” And it says Matt lives in West Palm Beach. Matt, get in touch! [...]