Comments on: Spaghetti served fresh: Forecast models on the Stormpulse.com map

By: Hola, aloha: Stormpulse expands to the Pacific basin « Stormpulse Blog

Hola, aloha: Stormpulse expands to the Pacific basin « Stormpulse Blog — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:12:12 +0000

[...] imagery. Something we don’t have yet: forecast/spaghetti models. Our source for the Atlantic spaghetti models (the South Florida Water Management District) does not provide this data, so we’re looking [...]

By: Far Left Texas

Far Left Texas — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:35:59 +0000

I’ve been reading here and Googling spaghetti strings and still don’t understand what these things are. Does anybody have a link to some sort of “Spaghetti Strings For Dummies”?

BTW, StormPulse.com ROCKS!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:49:12 +0000

I would also like to request the ability to view previous model forecast tracks. This would be a neat way of visualizing verification for the various models.

By: Baylink

Baylink — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000

One other suggestion (yeah, I’m full of … them :-)

regarding the last point in this posting, you might want to consider /2008/4, etc. Knowing the name or what the strength is isn’t *really* a fit restriction for API arguments, is it?

/2008/latest is probably good too, and /2008/current for all current storms instead of the last one in the list.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:54:57 +0000

TheLyles – I could probably help with that. It’s all out there floating around. Are you looking for a specific storm or more general numbers of which models do better? I think I know the different places to find that.

Brad – Man, how do you find all the time!?! You do amazing work.
For the consensus forecasting… that’s a big deal to me. I can’t seem to find the link, though. I see instructions, but not a form for each storm. I’d love to see this highlighted a bit more and become something really useful. I totally believe in it.

By: TheLyles

TheLyles — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:40:07 +0000

My 11 year old would like to know if anyone has numbers on which model has been right in forecasting the storm?

By: mankoff

mankoff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:40:51 +0000

Any chance you can keep records of model predictions, so that we can look at historical storms (or historical periods for a current storm) and see both the spaghetti and the reality path the storm chose?

By: Jimbob the Sailor

Jimbob the Sailor — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:25:48 +0000

I saw the lady weather-guesser on the (cough) Weather Channel say the storm surge is going to
be 30 feet high.

If you measure from average high water that should put it atop the tallest telephone pole. I think that is wrong!!!

Do you have a model (or answer)for that???

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:51:15 +0000

Perhaps I’m blind but I don’t see the ‘Forecast Models’ toggle option – has it been removed for some reason?

Thanks for the great resource though!

By: Ed Foster Jr.

Ed Foster Jr. — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:22:46 +0000

Matthew,
Way to go! The spaghetti model feature is a real added bonus.
Thanks