#IRENE HURRICANE TRACK FREE#
One free alternative is iHurricane HD from, which includes maps and warnings as well as email alerts. A nice feature: You can set any page within the app as your home screen, so the next time you open the app it sends you there instead of, say, having to wade through the data navigation to get to Irene. They also do their own audio and video updates, although those don't seem to be updated very frequently (this morning, I still saw the video from yesterday afternoon). Its Irene page has links to National Hurricane Center advisories, discussions, audio updates and maps - lots of maps computer models from several sources and push alerts. I went with the popular and highly rated Hurricane Tracker, a handy collection of info from multiple sources. IPhone/iPad/iTouch: As you might have guessed (if you haven't looked already), there are a number of hurricane-tracking apps available for iOS. Here are some resources and tools to keep up with the storm: 21st-century technology has made it a lot easier to track Hurricane Irene as it heads toward the Eastern U.S. After Hurricane Bob, I was out volunteering for the Red Cross with my handheld ham radio to help provide post-storm communications. Send me your photos of Irene’s destruction to post at Universe Today.The last time a hurricane hit New England, it was 1991 - 2 years before I'd even seen the World Wide Web, let alone used it and long before the era of smartphones and social media. Many transit systems and airports in Irene’s path were shutdown ahead of the storm.
Irene's outer bands had already extended into New England. The GOES-13 satellite saw Hurricane Irene on Augat 10:10 a.m. Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project Irene slams into North Carolina. EDT shows an active Atlantic Ocean with the remnants of Hurricane Irene moving into Quebec and Newfoundland (left), Tropical Storm Jose (center) and newly formed Tropical Depression 12 (right).
This GOES-13 image from Monday, August 29 at 7:45 a.m. Today’s NASA Image of the day shows the humongous cloud cover spanning the US East coast from the Mid-Atlantic States up to New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and New England and into Toronto, Canada. NASA’s GOES-13 satellite captured a dramatic view of Hurricane Irene just 28 minutes prior to making landfall over New York City. About 3.3 million customers are still without power today. Credit: NASA/Ron Garan aboard the ISSĮmergency crews are hard at work to restore power as quickly as possible, but many thousands of homes and businesses could be without power for up to a week or more. Hope everyone is OK wrote NASA Astronaut Ron Garan with his twitpic from the ISS. Irene From Space and the ISS as it crossed the coast on Augat 3:32pm EST. Hurricane Irene twitpic from the International Space Station on 8/27/11 by NASA Astronaut Ron Garan Some 8 million customers, including my area, lost power due to extensive flooding, downed trees and electrical wires, and devastated infrastructure. More people are being evacuated from New Jersey towns today, Aug 30.īrave emergency rescue workers have put their own lives at peril and saved the lives of countless others of all ages from babies to the elderly. Some communities have been entirely cut off due to washed out access. So far 41 fatalities in 12 states have been attributed to Irene and more may be expected as searches continue.
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