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Information on Hurricane HD for the iPad
Features
- Atlantic and Pacific Basin Interactive Tracking Map with storm data, generated on your device as it becomes available, throughout the hurricane season.
- Tracking map that is not just an image, but an interactive tracking map which allows you move between tracks, viewing each plot’s detailed information including wind speed with the icon, and lat/lon, speed/direction, pressure, date and time in the tab bar.
- Learn more about past hurricanes like Camile, Hugo, Andrew and Katrina, just to name a few. All hurricanes back to 1851 in the Atlantic, and 1949 in the Pacific are available!
- Internet Connection required to receive new plots and view new satellite pages and text bulletins.
- Each ACTIVE storm has:
- Storm Centered Satellite Images
- Forecast Image Maps
- Tropical Bulletins from the NHC:
- Storm Bulletin
- Storm Forecast/Advisory
- Storm Discussion
- Storm Probabilities
- Radar (when available/within radar range)
- Data Feed which contains:
- Generic Satellite Images and satellite loops (Atlantic, Pacific, Sea Surface Temps and more!)
- Tropical Outlooks, Discussions and Summaries produced by the NHC
- Detailed explanation of the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
- All Satellite views updated throughout the hurricane season, and changed to current imagery as they become available.
*Atlantic Basin includes the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Of Mexico, Caribbean and surrounding areas.
*Northeast Pacific Basin includes the west coast of North America – US west coast, Mexico, Central America and Hawaii
This application is great for:
- anyone with interests on the east or west coast of the US
- anyone interested in severe weather or meteorology
- studying tropical system history
- sailing, boating, diving and other water sport enthusiasts
- travelers to the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific Ocean
- anyone interested in watching these powerful storms
Hurricane, the premier tracking application.
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Hurricane 3.0
Hurricane 3.0 is here!. We have created a great FaceBook photo album of screen shots of the application so you can see what to expect from Hurricane.
No Flash? No problem! You can also view the images from the embedded Flickr slideshow directly on Flickr here: Flickr: Hurricane 3.0
New Major Features
- Redesigned User Interface
- Google Tracking Maps for the Atlantic, Northeast Pacific and Central Pacific
- Calculated distance from each track point
- Satellite Image Loops
Hurricane 3.2
No Flash? No problem! View the slideshow images on Flickr: Hurricane 3.2
New Major Features
- Great new high quality Map layout
- Interactive Forecast Cones right on the Tracking Map
- Refined Data Page, splitting Atlantic and Pacific Data in a more logical way