how can this be ?
Posted by cypresstx on 5/24/2016, 3:38 pm
http://jacksonville.com/ElFaro

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-05-18/story/storm-track-received-el-faro-day-sinking-was-21-hours-old

Representatives of Applied Weather Technology, which provided the Bon Voyage System on board the El Faro, said the storm track received by the ship on Sept. 30, the morning before it sank, was 10 hours old.

When questioned later, however, they acknowledged that in this case it was 21 hours old when considering all the time involved in processing forecasts and sending a storm track. Also a factor was an error that led the same storm track to be sent out twice, six hours apart.

They said the wind and wave data that would have included the effect of the storm was up to date. AWT company officials said they did not know why the storm track was so old and that it was an anomaly.



Applied Weather Technology's parent company is StormGeo  http://www.stormgeo.com/ , which acquired the Houston company, ImpactWeather in 2012 - I am sick over this...
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how can this be ? - cypresstx, 5/24/2016, 3:38 pm
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