We few, we happy few, who find ourselves in harm’s way for major parts of the year in the Hurricane zones of Florida and the Atlantic and Gulf Coast states may want to be watching for a new service coming from Google.
The director of the National Hurricane Center said today that they are planning to couple a Google application with storm surge data in the hands of meteorologists to permit Americans in the potential danger zones to view storm surge probabilities to the local address level for user input storm forecasts.
Storm surge - the wall of water carried ashore ahead of the storm - is considered to be the most dangerous element of the storm. It is hoped that the availability of storm specific warnings providing information to residents who otherwise might not evacuate ahead of the storm could save lives.
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