Now that the 2009 Hurricane Season is officially upon us, I am looking forward (if that’s the right expression) to testing out how this iPhone app works. I bought it some months back so only have historical data on it, from 2008 and prior, but it promises great things.
The app — “Hurricane”, from Kitty Code LLC — displays all 2008 Atlantic storms and tapping any storm gives a plot of its position over time, the maximum (sustained) wind speed, the time and date of any given plot point, the barometric pressure at the eye of the storm, and the direction the storm was moving in when the measurement was taken.
The data goes back to the mid 1800s — 1914 seems to have been a good year, with only one storm (Hurricane No Name 01) and even that one only peaked, for a short time, at 70mph. 1933, on the other hand, was bad, with 21 storms, of which 2 were Cat 4 and a number Cat 3.
OK, you can get the same data elsewhere for free (the app is $3.99) but it’s pretty cool to look at and worth a price of beer in my money.
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