tracerrx
(Registered User)
Fri Sep 05 2008 05:20 PM
Re: intensity forecasts for Ike will be a crap shoot

This maybe a newbie question, so please forgive.

How long until the Recon that was collected today from the hurricane hunter aircraft, is incorporated into the models? From my understanding, historically, the accuracy of the models is greatly improved after this information has been obtained.



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