Have you noticed the little "download gis data" button just about the forecast maps on the NHC site?
The number one request I got while at the NHC was to add a place where emergency managers and other in the multi-million-user GIS world could get REAL data. Not just "fuzzy" graphics (to paraphrase). They finally put it on there. When I was there every six hours I had to wait for the hurricane conference call, then get the latest crib sheet from the forecasters and make a photo-copy! Then we would run into the closet they hid the surge-prediction section, and re-enter the data by hand! This was 2005, NOT 1985!
PROGRESS!!!
HLG
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