TNRIS Tracking Hurricane Gustav into Texas

TNRIS has a very nice web mapping service (powered via Microsoft Virtual Earth) showing users where Gustav is currently located - live doppler feed show the progress of the storm as it heads over Louisiana and into NE Texas - see the TNRIS hurricane season resources at http://www.tnris.org/EmergencyResponse.aspx

Mashup maps Impact of Hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico

Brian over at the Timoney group has share details of some work his team did over the labor-day week-end to help convey the impacts of hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. the mashup shows natural gas, pipelines, platforms in the gulf along with data for each oil provider - See GulfImpact - the application is powered by Microsoft's virtual Earth platform

Gustav Imagery

Hurricane Gustav News Updates

A tip - Weatherbug Severe Weather Alerts (mobile too)

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Weather Underground Hurricane-Tracking service

Check out the availability of a new Hurricane-Tracking service - Wundermap. WunderMap displays the current position, strength and movement of every tropical storm across the world that threatens to become a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone. WunderMap displays: the current position, historical path, the storm's projected path and strength. Currently, hurricane and storm paths can be seen online at www.wunderground.com/wundermap/hurricane .

Recently, weather provider Weather Underground announced the

Hurricane Gustav GIS data, Imagery and path compared to Katrina

Wow, dejavu! Here we am almost 3 years to the day on a Sunday morning as I find myself searching around for some real-time imagery and data showing a major Hurricane headed towards the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Perhaps the quickest way to access imagery and graphics showing the path of Gustav is via WeatherUnderground. NOAA's hurricane center is also a must-visit resource as is the NOAA NowCoast real-time webmapping service at http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
Perhaps of interest to some of you is the GIS data product available from NOAA (SHP file) for storm surge probabilities (.ZIP) - see NOAA for latest data updates. For more image captures from Hurricane Gustav and Katrina see here.

Other relevant weblinks:

• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes
• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html
• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/query_expediter.html
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml
• http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
• http://www.osei.noaa.gov/
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/allison01.htm
• Hurricane Evacuation zone maps
• Hurricane prepardeness
• http://www.giscorps.org/
• Track Flooding During Tropical Storm Gustav in Real-Time
• Preparing for the 2008 Hurricane Season

Hurricane Gustav as seen Sunday AM via NOAA Goes Imagery
GOEES Imagery from 2005 showing the well developed eye of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Gustav path (Source: WeatherUnderground) Interesting as compared to the path that Hurricane Katrina took in 2005 (below)