predicting storms

11.23.09

Sensors Mounted On Commercial Airliners Networked For Most Accurate Weather Forecasts Ever

AirDat's sensors, currently installed on the nosecones of 160 commercial airplanes, beam real-time atmospheric data to forecasters

By Devon O'Neil Posted 08.17.2009 at 9:40 am 0 Comments

Storm Seekers: AirDat’s Tamdar sensors, currently installed on the nosecones of 160 commercial airplanes, beam real-time atmospheric data to forecasters. Courtesy AirDat; Courtesy EMBRAER

Last September, five days before Hurricane Ike pulverized the Texas coast, the National Hurricane Center pegged a point near Corpus Christi as the storm’s most likely landfall. Residents of the low-lying region around Galveston, some 250 miles north, breathed a sigh of relief.

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Under the Eye of the Hurricane

Researchers find that listening for storms underwater can help them predict intensity

By Gregory Mone Posted 04.15.2008 at 7:10 am 0 Comments

MIT researchers have proposed a strange new way to predict the severity of a hurricane: Listening underwater. Currently, the most common way to gauge a storm's strength is to either study satellite images (which can be pretty inaccurate), or fly a weather plane straight on into the storm and gather critical data (which gets expensive).

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