SkeetoBite
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| (Master of Maps) |
| Mon Sep 27 2004 03:39 PM |
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Re: Skeetobytes track map
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Skeeter's track map needs a little work, especially the Charley track. Here's the NOAA track (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/information/charley/charleyframe.htm)
Skeeto has it almost on Bartow which is funny since we went to get gas and supplies there the next day. The eye passed well east of Bartow, directly over Lake Buffum if you can find that. I trust the NOAA map because I live in that area and am still cutting wood from Charley. I was on my roof making quick repairs when the eye of Frances went over and we were out for about 2 hours when the eye of Jeanne passed over yesterday. That is in Babson Park which Skeeter's map shows to be pretty safe and sound from Charley. You all should have been here to see how safe it was on the north end of Crooked Lake up a clear slope, checking out the Bernoulli effect 3 miles from the eastern eyewall of Charley and being hit dead on by Frances and Charley.
Hate to make a big deal out of it but the Weather Channel showed a bad map too, with Charley even west of Bartow, FL. I just don't want my 3 Purple Hearts to be classified as slivers.
Sorry man... not our data. Just our maps. The coordinates came from NHC advisories from the initial point for each new advisory. We have carefully plotted these to precisely the coordinates given. We have found our maps to be more precise that the "stick figure" maps provided by NHC.
I have seen all kinds of maps with the paths crossing well south and some completely out of Polk County as well.
Important to note that these are straight lines from point to point, and that is not how hurricanes move (except Charley apparently). Where these storms actually crossed was pretty darn close to the coordinates given by NHC. Given the size of the eye for each storm, being off a mile, or even 5 miles for that matter is irrelevant.
I'm sure you got hit, and deserve your purple hearts. I'm glad you are safe.
Edited to add:
Don't forget that these storms move in a curved path from coordinate to coordinate. For me to "guess" at the exact curve would in my mind be worse than using the straight line from point to point as shown in the maps. We all noticed that as Jeanne approached the coast, the curve in the path could account for approximately 10 to 20 miles difference in the point of landfal.l