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Historical Hurricane Tracks

While you can't predict the exact path of Irene, you can see the path for previous storms.

I was a history major in college and so I'm always interested in what happened in the past.  It is not always a predictor of the future--but it can be.  Certainly it confirms predictions of what is possible based on what has happened in history.

 

Therefore, I think you will like this nifty site from NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks

 

As stated in a recent NOAA news release: 

 

“Understanding the history of hurricane landfalls in your community is an important step toward assessing your vulnerability to these potentially devastating storms,” said Ethan Gibney, a senior geospatial analyst for NOAA and one of the site’s developers. “The Historical Hurricane Tracks tool allows visitors to quickly and easily conduct highly customized searches of historical data for hurricanes, whether along the U.S. coast or around the world.”

 

NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks web site www.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/  includes tropical cyclone data and information on coastal county hurricane strikes data through 2010. It also features a searchable database of population changes versus hurricane strikes for U.S. coastal counties from 1900 to 2000 and includes detailed reports on the life history and effects of U.S. tropical cyclones since 1958."



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