Re: the storms that flooded our last home twice & eventually got it demolished
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 2/12/2024, 9:42 pm
I had missed that the cone graphics on their site start around August 15th:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NHC_Cone_Graphic_Change_Announcement.pdf
They will still keep the old cone graphic too. I don't know if they will permanently or if that is just while this experimental graphic is being tested.
Since a lot of people do seem to be confused about the cone and possible or expected impacts from a storm, it's good they are trying to find better ways to communicate things. I hope people take the time to understand their risks. Some is that there could be better ways to communicate the information, but a lot of it I think is people just not paying enough attention. There will never be a perfect product to communicate every risk, but even if there was, you would have too many people simply not paying enough attention to it.
Surge and rainfall are communicated to people better than they have been before, but it's still just not focused on as much as wind is. Local news can do that better, communicating all the different impacts, but I bet a lot of people don't watch the local news, even when a storm is coming. And some local news would be better than others. People probably get information more from social media, which isn't a good idea unless it's information from the NHC, or NOAA in general, that is linking to their products.
I do wish the detailed IKE scale imagery was still with the government. Simple calculations can be made, but not like what that provided. It was very informative when a storm might have a lot more surge than what one might expect given its wind category. It was a great somewhat real time tool, maybe the best there is, for estimating that for the storm overall. |
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