Reply #7: Excellent Hurricane Rita Monitoring Sites

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I use many different Hurricane tracking websites to supplement the National Hurricane Center's Site: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Here's several excellent ones:

NOAA "Thumbnail" Popup Storm Tracker - Excellent:
http://www.stormtracker.noaa.gov/stormtracker-rita.htm

National Hurricane Center Satellite Images:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml

This is an excellent consolidated information and maps site for monitoring Hurricane Rita:
http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html#AL18

Good consolidated Hurr Rita info at WeatherUnderground:
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

This is an excellent site for monitoring NOAA's National Data Bouy Center (NDBC)
(You can learn much about Hurricanes watching individual bouy data as hurricanes approach.)
http://www.weathermatrix.net/tropical/surface/interactive.shtml



NDBC Homepage: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
NDBC Special Hurr Rita Site: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?lat1=24.6N&lon1=87.2W&dist=250&time=3

Note: Watch NDBC Bouy 42002 as Hurr Rita runs over it. You will see some wild stuff, if it doesn't fail! Also Watch Bouy 42001. Hurricane Katrina ran over Bouy 42003 and knocked it out. First time I have ever seen this happen even with Hurricane Ivan last year, which registered the largest waves ever recorded by a Gulf Hurricane.

A lot of the pros monitor this site for upper level hurricane steering currents. Click the tabs at the top for the different layers:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/atlantic/winds/wg8dlm1.html

A lot of the pros use this site to monitor Gulf Of Mexico surface temperatures:
Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences
Satellite Images - Sea Surface Temperature of Gulf of Mexico
http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/sat_data/?product=sst®ion=gulfmexico¬humbs=0
Homepage: http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/sat_data/?product=sst¬humbs=0

Live NOAA GOES-12 Hurricane Rita Images. These pics are awesome! Updated every 30 minutes:
http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Hurricane Rita NHC Gulf of Mexico - Visible Loop (Wait for it to load):
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html

Houston Chronicle Newspaper Continuing Hurricane Rita Coverage:
(Chronicle is the only newspaper in town)
Homepage: http://www.chron.com/
Special Hurr Rita Section:
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/05/rita/index.html
Chronicle Science Guy Blog:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/