During all of the hooplah and media coverage of Hurricane Gustav, I've been more than usually interested in every detail. My daughter Jess will be moving to the Cayman Islands for 3 months mid-September, and her friend Chad will be there as well (more about this in another blog). My son P.J., with his lady, Nicole, is supposed to be spending a 3 day weekend in mid-September in New Orleans. In addition, hurricanes in the Gulf can impact Central Texas, not only in weather, but in folks evacuating from coastal areas and needing shelter from the storm for them and their animals. Naturally, I followed Gustav's path and development with some concern.
To that end, I turned to my preferred internet weather information provider, wunderground. I had not realized before, since I generally use wunderground to track local storms, that it has its own set of blogs having to do with the weather. Over the past few days, I've been following Jeff Masters' blog predominantly - it's a great combination of technical information and down to earth, what-does-this-really-mean, plain English explanations of what's going on. Plus, he adds comments from folks who are on the ground in the impacted areas, which REALLY helps. It's a great resource.
He's got me hooked. When weather of a major import strikes again, you can be sure I'll be heading to wunderblogs, more than the mainstream media, to get the facts. Blogging strikes again!
Hi Tricia, That really is an excellent site - very busy but with tons of good info. You're right about the way it is explained in simple terms. Thanks !
Tricia - I've never heard of that website! I'll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing! :)
Bill, yes, it is busy - they've got so much information that it pretty much has to be! I started slow, with just the radar for our area (I love how I can zoom in on just our little part of the animated radar map to see what's about to happen to my little neck of the woods), and have gradually become familiar with their various offerings, a piece at a time. Sure been worth the effort.
Debi, you're welcome. I'm very fond of it, myself.