What are the best visualizations of Hurricane Sandy?

There are all kinds of ways to watch Hurricane Sandy: out your window, on cable news, via photos on Twitter and Instagram. read more

Whichever school of hurricane prep you ascribe to, all eyes (human and machine alike) are on the East Coast today, which has made for some interesting visualizations of the storm. It used to be that meteorologists made a “best guess” using data culled from weather balloons, which gleaned broad, imprecise insights into storm paths. read more

The visualizations, created using state-of-the-art computer models, provide some of most detailed looks at any hurricane to date. Scientists have recently developed awe-inspiring visualizations of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states a year ago. read more

In summary, simulations and visualizations of Hurricane Sandy show that the lead time of TC predictions can be extended by improving multiscale interactions of Sandy with the large-scale flows that include a sub-tropical, upper-level trough (appearing over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico), blocking systems to the northeast of Sandy, and a mid-latitude, upper-level trough that moved eastward from 130 degrees west longitude. read more