Who We Are
Stormpulse.com is a production of Matt and Brad and is the result of almost as many hours of conversation as coding.
Matt began creating Stormpulse.com in 2004. He currently resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Brad joined the effort in 2006, wearing many hats, from system administrator to relentless visionary. His code is mailed in from Chicago, Illinois.
We also want to thank our friends and family that have supported the project, especially our nameless “resident skeptic and occasional consultant” for never ceasing to fuel the fire of wanting to prove him wrong.
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Very cool project! I work at The Palm Beach Post, and would love to hear more about Stormpulse and how it came together. Get in touch!
Hey guys. From the pictures on the blog (considering I can’t get on the site yet) I’m really liking the project. I’m a weather tech in the US Navy, currently stationed at the Pentagon. I happened to show it to our Officer in Charge, and he liked it. I’m wondering when the site will be active again. Also, I’m wondering in a future update if you can include NOAA storm surge models. Here’s a Wikipedia link in case you’re not sure what I’m talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOSH
Anyway, if you could get back to me sometime in the near future, it’d be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
AGAN Joseph Hain, USN
Good Job Matt!
Impressive website. You have yielded the best in large mapping technology successfully with the meteorological links. The website looks more impressive everytime I see it.
@Joseph: Thanks for taking a look; we’re glad you like what you see so far. Taht said, SLOSH model graphics are in the work queue; thanks for telling us what you want to see, as it helps us prioritize.
@Adam: Thanks! Andrea’s appearance caught us a bit by surprise, but we should have an update out today that takes her and the 2007 season into account and gives you a ‘current view’ of the world. Thanks so much for staying tuned!
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Good job, Matt. Met you at the GHC. My site is http://wx.maltese.net
Chris
Matt& Brad,
This is awesome, I am a amateur weather man Cw1141. I use “Tracking the eye”. Very impressive. Now to learn how to use it.
Fred
Thank you for sending… awesome I am waiting for a storm.
Fred
Great job! Your site is beautiful.
Brad:
It was good talking to you yesterday about StormPulse. I am impressed at the depth and breadth of the information available. I am interested at how the project progresses.
Brian
I must say you guys have one hell of a site with Storm Pulse. Upon discovering your site about 2 storms back I got rid of the ones I had and with good reason. I live in Puerto Rico and it is vitally important to know what is coming off the coast of Africa as that generally ends up in our area. I could not get that sort of tracking on the other sites and it was frustrating having to count with the local info. Once I found your site everything changed. Now I am able to monitor the WHOLE ATLANTIC and be informed as to what is going on. Not only is your URL on my toolbar but I have saved it in various places to make sure if I have some sort of system failure I will be able to re-cooperate it. You guys have done a superb job! My congratulations on a job well done.
elbohemio
My name is Jonathan, and I am a weather-holic.
Your site is cool. Call me when you need office space–I advise clients on their real estate requirements, and I’m sure we’d get along fine given our shared prediliction.
Jonathan
Matt:
Excelent site. Good improvements from the first time I visit it. I have had the opportunity to use this when a real-time situation is “on the way”.
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Hey Matt,
I miss you guys, hope all is well. Kick-ass site
This is really fantastic. Love what you have done. I do have a question. What exactly do the different bands around the eye mean as far as wind speed estimates.
Thank you
Thanks for the great site. One suggestion: can you indicate the times by zone (East, Central, etc.)? Thanks!
@Bill
Glad you’re enjoying the site.
All times in the interactive map *should be* your computer’s local
time. If not, please let me know. I would love to indicate the zone,
but there’s no way for the map to know that the local time on your
computer is EDT or EST or CST, etc. It just knows “this is local
time”, without the zone information.
A bit of help text would probably be a good thing, wouldn’t it …
@Stewart
The bands relate to hurricane force 74+ mph (orange), storm force
40-58 mph (yellow), and tropical storm force 39 mph (white) winds.
These designations are in keeping with the data published by the
National Hurricane Center. We agree that the map should have a legend
making this clear.
Not bad graphics but http://www.globalboiling.org provides far more images and information to be able get a sense from the water temperatures and actual storm satellite photos about how strong a storm will likely become.
With the global satellite photos on http://www.globalboiling.org you can see the beginnings of hurricanes long before the national weather service classifies them as threats. I check it almost everyday during the summer. You can even see them forming off Africa.
You can also see when the gulf water temperature gets hot which is a clear indication that any approaching storm will explode into a powerful hurricane. You can also see the actually DAILY ice radar measurements of the north and south pole and literally watch the poles melt in the hottest months.
Incidentally the censors of the wikipedia global warming page hate it when people post http://www.globalboiling.org as a reference link because it so clearly shows that global warming is real. HINT HINT :-) Those censoring right wing Luddites hate it!
Hi… someone linked me to your site. It is beautiful, useful and very informative in a visual way. I posted it on my blog and will continue to pass it around. Very current and enjoyable to use.
Thank you!
Bobbi
http://hurricaneharbor.blogspot.com/
@George
Thanks for taking the time to write. I understand your interest in global warming; for now we do offer the ability to check sea temperatures by looking at ocean buoys on the map (top-right-hand layers menu under ‘More’). We may also add in the global sea surface temperatures heat map at some point in the near future (we have already tested it out in development back in 2006, but it has not yet made the site). If you can think of any more suggestions, we’re all ears.
@Bobbi
I really enjoyed reading your description of Gustav; it’s much more understandable to read about these storms in human, rather than technical terms, which your prose excels at doing. Thanks again for checking out the site.
Hey guys love the website. I teach 4th grade in Cobb County, GA (Just north of Atlanta) and I have just sent your website to my team and our county coordinator so she can pass it around the county to other teachers.
One thing I noticed on the photo section of Hurricane Katrina, you have some pictures on there that are tornadoes not hurricanes. I have seen them before and they are hoax pictures of F3-F5 tornadoes, taken in the midwest. They are titled Hurricane Katrina 1 - 5. You might want to pull those. :-)
Guys…THANK YOU! All of us here at a major Japanese electronics manufacturer tech support group of over 100 people here in southwest florida use your site. We no longer have to go to noaa and/or numerous other sites to get a full picture. your site is absolutely stunning in its concept and I wish you all the best of luck. You have built a better mousetrap! The ability to pull up previous hurricanes genius! I lived through Camille, Frederick, Andrew, Katrina, Charlotte and Wilma to name a few and the ability to call them up and view in relation to each other is just outstanding. Many, Many thanks and much success to you!
I would like to current steering currents for storms. I live in Mobile, AL and in home health care, so it is vital to my patients and myself that I have a strong and reliable indication as to where a storm is headed to make arrangments for my clients.
Relying on local forcasters or the weather channel or sometimes accu-weather really doesn’t benefit me well.
As a matter of fact, Monday, Aug. 25,2008 was supposed to be light winds and heavy rains from Fay, however, my client lives in Bayou La Batre, AL and the drive was so treacherous that I had to turn around. So having cumlative steering current winds would be helpful for me in aiding the safety of my clients.
If you guys aren’t going add that feature, do you know where I can find it?
Thanks,
;-)
As an Emergency Manager I am very interested in accurate weather models. The National Weather Service has the best data available, but the way they present it is antiquated. A friend sent me a link to your stormpulse.com and I was instantly impressed. Not only is the data accurate and informative, but it is also very pleasing to the eyes. Do you have any plans to include the Pacific Ocean? Although not critical for me it is nice to see what may come across the country towards Texas. Thank you!
Wow, this site is really amazing. thank you for sharing with the world.
Wishing you the best,
Mike
Sweet website! Graphics, hyperlinks, NHC advisory info…AWESOME!
-shrop-
Was just referred to your site tonight and I AM IMPRESSED! VERY NICE JOB. As Emergency Coordinator for the Northeast Unit of District 14 Amateur Radio Emergency Service (Houston TX), it will be most helpful as we gear up for Gustav and future storms in the Gulf. Thanks for your hard work.
73,
Chuck
KE5RAD
one of your family members pimped your site on our union message board…
great job!!!
great site!!!
Hope that we will be able to overlay fronts and jet stream one day. This is a one stop website, I no longer have to switch around to see what’s happening. You have done it for me. Thanks
This site is absolutely amazing. The colors and the graphics are extremely pleasing to the eye and the site is so easy to navigate that it is just downright fun. Very, very informative. I ran across it while looking up Fox News online today an being a weather addict, I emailed the link to my sister in Chattanooga, who is also an addict and we got online at the same time, while talking on the phone and had the best time exploring the site. Job well done fellas and many thanks for all your hard work. This is TERRIFIC! Muchos Gracias.
Nice Site! Looks great and works like it should. That is rare on the web… Can you put the weather bouy links on as a layer option so we can check wave heights and the storm at the same time?
AK - Folly Beach
Can you add a loop to the satellite imagery? I didn’t see it anywhere.
Matt, what an incredible site!
What are your plans for maintaining this site going forward?
I’m the VP - CIO for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. We’re in the process of modernizing our web site.
Certainly, linking to Stormpulse would be a benefit to our site visitors.
Fabulous website with life-saving info. I don’t see any info for the West Coast. I live in OR, where we have incredible storms in the winter from the Bering Sea - wouldn’t you just love to expand your service in our direction? We’d love to have you!!!
Unbelievably awesome website, guys! This is what a storm-tracking site ought to be like. I managed to spend ~2 hours just looking through the archives.
Great web site, well done. I live in State College, Pa., home of Accuweather; your web site is far superior. So nice to see the “thin line” used for tracking of TS or hurricanes.
You have made a good job. I like the web. The information and the interface are amazing. They are very clear and useful. I wish you a big success.
Thank you from Miami
A W E S O M E J O B, gentlemen. SO FAR SUPERIOR than anything I have seen anywhere. I emailed your URL to every person I know on the planet. Very, very well done. The information you offer just covers everything and it is so user friendly. I cannot praise the work you have done enough.
Oh, and 2x on maybe west coast storm tracking from North Central Washington
Rich
I live in Puerto Rico and this tool is very useful in keeping an eye on Cape Verde and better than anything I’ve seen out there. Thanks!! Keep up the great work.
Just saw the StormPulse link through the Orlando Sentinel for the first time. Now bookmarking for use during H’cane season. What an awesome work you guys have put together. Best wishes for your overwhelming success!
Thank you very much - what a great tool. Weather (like flight and faith) is endlessly fascinating. Obey the Schnauzer.
This site is excellent, wonderful, useful, and really cool. Thank you for doing this, I am spreading the word where I can
This is hands-down the best Hurricane tracking and info website available to the public. Keep up the great work!
Awesome website!!! I’m from The Bahamas and this is the best hurricane tracking website that I’ve seen by far.
I spent 20 years as a weather man in the Air Force during the 60’s and 70’s. The art has become science. Hurricanes and typhoons were always causing problems and it was hard for the average everyday person to get decent info. The NHC has made great strides since then and are to be applauded, cheered, rewarded. This site however raises the bar to a new level for displaying the data NHC prepares.
Matt and Brad deserve high praise and thanks from the general populace who have needed an easy-to-use, all-purpose interactive map display of the quality of this one. NOAA should take note. It’s quality, format and presentation are far superior to any other I have seen.
WELL DONE!!!
Vic Smith USAF(RET)
I just finished reading ‘a review of the features’ and a thought struck me. As an ex weather guy I was always interested in the steering mechinism for tropical storms/hurricanes/typhoons. Would it be possible to expand the display to incude some upper-air charts from say, 500mb, 300mb, 250mb, 200mb progs to give an idea of what upper-air dynamics are coming into play? The descriptions often talk about openings in a ridge and the like. Most laymen don’t know that huge storms are ‘pushed around’ by ridges of high pressure and follow the ‘path of least resistance’ The same is true dynamic lows but ‘warm core’ lows are so much more impressive that most folks are unaware they are at the mercy of anything. Just a thought.
Again, I cannot help but be impressed.
Vic Smith
Great job, be proud.. Have folks in Alabama and Georgia, Tennessee that view the site and are impressed..Again great job…
Looks great…
Guys… awesome work. I found this last night and IM’d 4 people today. By the end of the day, everyone was using it. You have a small following here in Columbia, SC.
Spectacular website - comfortably untouchable for the presentation of the NHC forecasts and associated information.
Keep up the phenomenal work.
I’ll echo the comments above — awesome site, extremely useful, and I’ll be spreadin’ the word!
This site is phenomenal. It’s extremely user-friendly, and is far and away better than any other weather-tracking site I’ve ever used. Thank you.
I’ve looked at a lot of maps with 3 storms brewing and headed for FL. Yours is the best. Others should adopt it! Thanks!!
Finally a great weather site! Makes you to keep coming back.
Matt & Brad, Great site! Regarding TS/H cycles, in Sep ‘05 I wrote Max Mayfield at NHC a letter regarding my theory suggesting certain cycles exist, based on research of historical data, such as the data on your website. But, no answer! Predictions based on my findings have been almost perfect (so far). I would like someone like yourselves, who share a real interest and love for this special niche of meterology, to see if my ideas pass muster. With a physical or eMail address, I will be glad to send you the information. Again, your website is the very best! Regards, John Bacon
The site looks great!!! Could you include production/oil rigs on the map as well (as an option)? This would make the map very useful for oil and gas traders.
Hi Matt,
Nice work.
Would you be open to a small banner ad sponsorship in your top header, to the right of your search box, for my http://www.FloridaVacationAuction.com website? Something along the lines of “Save on a Sunny Day” kind of thing as storms typically don’t do much for leisure travel in our sunshine state.
Let me know.
Thanks,
Sal
Great visuals!
If you want to include more information for hurricane prediction in addition to sea surface temperature, check out tropical cyclone heat potential (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/). It would be awesome to layer this info on the hurricane tracks.
TCHP is a prediction of the mass of hot water available to a storm (the sea surface temperature integrated over the depth of the thermocline). At this point, there normally aren’t enough actual measurements of the thermocline, so it is estimated via satellite altimetry.
I’m working on a project instrumenting one of the big energy companies rigs in the Gulf with additional instrumentation for weather and ocean measurements and feeding it into NOAA in real time.
You may also want to add point measurements from NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (www.ndbc.noaa.gov).
Beautiful site! If you ever want to chat about hurricane science and prediction, drop me a line.
Regards,
Ian
Can you create some link graphics that websites could use to link to you? I sell survival kits at http://www.giftbargains4u.com and would love to place a link on my site survival kit gift set to yours. Awesome graphics, structure and very informational! Congratulations and keep up the great work.
Barbi
First-timer here, recommended by a friend…awesome! Thanks so much! Blessings on your futures with this great site!
This is the very best site for tracking the hurricane. I’ve just turned on my whole company to here. I just can’t believe how thorough and amazing of a job you’ve done with this. I hope everyone starts using it. You guys are incredible. Great job!!!!!
Living on an island, waiting for Ike, want an iphone just for this site (you know, in case we lose electricity)
GREAT SITE!!! Thanks a lot!
I will pass it on to my many Florida friends. I LOVE it!!
Great site guys, I live in Miami and am trying to figure the wind fields around “Ike” so I can decide where to put my boat. I am unable to interpret your windfield probability model.
Also how does the tip thing work? From where is the money taken?
Great site, you did an amazing job! My wife is currently on cuba, therefore i am a regular visitior to your site to keep an eye on what’s going on with hurrican Ike.
Thanks a lot, Finn76 from germany :-)
Awesome!
It seems like everyone has said before me. What an awesome site. It goes on my desktop as prime site.
I am a frustrated armchair meteorologists; that is to say I was an undergraduate meteorologist at the University of Hawaii in the early 80s. Dreams shattered, not being able to chase heavy weather, because I had to leave their early and due to circumstances was never able to finish.
What are your plans for the future? Might I be able to get involved somehow? Time for a career change for me anyway.
From the sounds of things you’re getting to eat the fruit of your labors, congratulations. Great job!
Gentlemen:
You have simplified my life. I can easily assimilate the information that I need to be able to tell my wife to worry or not to worry about approaching storms. Your graphics are awesome and the presentation of both forecast tracks and model results are great.
Ed R Ft. Myers, FL
Best storm tracking site I’ve seen. Very visual, very easy to use. Amazing that 2 guys can out do the big broadcast networks and government agencies in implementing a site like this. This site should be your stepping stone to other bigger and more lucrative :) projects. I email the site link to everyone I know.
Excellent! Please continue, as yours is the only website I know of with ALL the information, and presented intuitively. The network TV stations are useless in that they show tracks for about 250 milliseconds, an insufficient time even if you take into consideration that they show the same info over and over, punctuated by hype. We no longer pay them any attention, but get all our info from your site. Again, excellent web site, and any who are involved deserve an “Attaboy!”.
THIS IS THE BEST SITE! A GREAT COLLECTION OF INFORMATION AND PRESENTED IN A EASILY UNDERSTOOD MANNER. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!
super job.
would love to see a legend of syumbols. Have not been able to interpret wind velocities on the wind chart.
Congratulations.
Henry
Wonderful site! Keep up the good work!
This site is great!! Very user friendly,easy to navigate and loaded with great info. Living on the Gulf ocast of Fl, I really appreciate your site . Have forwarded this site on to many others.
-Donna fr FL
A pilot friend of mine had a link to your site on his webpage. I’m on the severe weather committee at a chemical plant here in Houston so the presentation is very helpful-thanks so much for all you do!
I love it — thank you very much. My fantasy feature request is for you to integrate high-res GOES satellite imagery, such as this:
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/atwv.html
We were docked in Andros, Bahamas, waiting for Hanna to pass. The local weather, via satellite and Internet was so into Gustav that Ike was just another storm to be recconed with later. Everyone on the dock was very concerned about Ike. One of the boaters suggested we look at your site. We were able to make a decision from looking at all of the information, that was to “get outta town!”.And we did. Arrived in South Florida yesterday, feeling much safer. Thanks so much.
Joe sent my this site and I must agree with him… awesome job!! The visuals are wonderful and the other features I am still discovering. Putting my mouse on a city displays distance to eye, turning on forecast models, and stepping thru the future speeds (on the bottom) is brilliant. This is my preferred site now. I hope you guys can make this pay. This should be a site used by TV stations… great visuals!! Thanks for all your work. I bow to you both…
Thank you so much for this wonderful website. We have a son in Myrtle Beach and many friends and relatives in FL so we are always worrying and wondering during storm season during storm season. The site is informative, easy to navigate and very interesting. Thank you again.
Thank You. We the Aircraft Maintenance Technicians of American Airlines in Miami enjoy your website. In our business it is important to be on the top of the storms that affect our lives. Wonderful website.
Great site, a load of us down here now using. Keep up the great work!!
Like Barbi asked for, if you could make a Stormpulse stickers ala Weather Underground, I’d be happy to put one on the front page of my blogsite, http://www.icecarvingsecrets.com, during hurricane season. What does ice carving have to do with hurricanes? Katrina moved us and my ice carving business out of New Orleans for a while and now I live in Mobile. I think your site is great and it’s now my first stop for information. Thanks!
Beautiful Site. Much better than NOAA. you guys are awesome.
Is it possible to have this site as a fully-functioning desktop image?
Hey Matt & Brad,
Still trying to hunt up last names for you. I want to cite you for a class i’m working on.
markus
Now that would be cool, an active desktop :-)
NEAL BOORTZ MENTIONED THIS WEBSITE ON HIS SHOW TODAY AND I WENT STRIGHT TO IT.
FINALLY THERE IS A WEBSITE I CAN GO TO WITH NO COMMERCIALS, NO NONSENSE, ETC. JUST THE WEATHER!
VERY COOL….THANK YOU.
Very impressive site! You have all other weather sites beat with quality and quantity of relevant information. This is the only site we will use now for future storm data.
Keep up the great work!!
As ground zero for Hurrican Katrina, I’d like to see a Mississippi coastal city added to the map. Many of us here have discovered your site and are eager to see our probabilities simplified too. And anyone who tells me to just check New Orleans is in for one very evil eye. Aside from that, thanks for the great site and great work!
Wonderful site. Has been a great help in my choices. As a Paramedic in Louisiana, I can make informed choices. Thank you. Do you desire or wish support in other means?
Regards
First timer . . .great site. I forwarded it to my friends and family who love to track storms and fashion themselves as meteorologists and climatologists.
This is such a great site. I work for the Red Cross and there are a bunch of us who frequent yoursite. I have even promoted it on our twitter stream @redcross. Neat stuff.
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THANK YOU for all your hard work putting this together. We live on the SC coast and were extremely frustrated trying to get the latest information on Hannah last week. We were switching from site to site in order to get all the info we needed. Seriously, thank you so much for allowing us such easy access to information that is potentially life-saving.
GREAT JOB!! THANK YOU!!
Great work! Someone forwarded a link to your site to our neighborhood group. Everyone now references it. I forwarded it to my wife at NASA. I was in her office yesterday and I saw that nearly everyone had the page up looking at IKE. Obviously it is a much nicer graphic than NOAA or the other gov agencies they can use…
I leave it up constantly on a second monitor. It is pleasing to the eye and information packed! GREAT WORK!
Rob
PS. What is the little smiley face for on the bottom left of this page?
This is the best site for hurricanes I have seen yet.I found your link in our daily paper The Halifax Herald(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).We were awaiting the arrival of Hannah and the paper posted this site with their update on the hurricane.I have sent it to all my family and friends and they were all impressed with it.You all deserve kudos for such a great site.
Unbelievable!!!! what else can be said. You two are the bomb. As a Florida native who has been through many hurricane threats its nice to be able to rely on info. when I want it, not when the local affiliates decide to give it to me. I work in a building with 750 people. Now 750 people use this website. Another thing that makes it special is the complete absence of what surely will become inevitable. ADVERTISING
Hi guys,
I have visited your site first time. It’s been great to see first of it’s kind. Visually it is best site, but the real key in this type of site is trustworthy information. This key only make people come back to your site.
So please take the information from most reliable sources only(NOAA&FEMA-SLOSH ETC..)
I am on my knees in humble awe of the site. I tell everyone about it. I send the link everywhere. I thought I was a weather junkie, but you people show me for the casual observer that I am.
Awesome, just plain Awesome!
Can I have your autographs on an 8×10 glossy? I’ll frame it and put it in my office.
Superb Work! Best site I have seen for hurricanes. I found it earlier today and have been tracking IKE all day. Shared it with my co-workers here at The Brownsville Herald and would like to work together about posting on our site. Will continue to share with everyone I know in South Texas & beyond. Can’t get enough of it. Keep it coming.
Great, awesome site….easy to understand and navigate. Houston TX
I am getting concerned now about Ike. I am 25 miles up from Corpus Christi along the coast. I’ve seen many come and go, including the unbelievably huge Gilbert in ‘88, and this sucker is a formidable potential 3 aiming right at me.
I am checking the site frequently, and appreciate the good info. you guys are providing. I am passing the info and site url to others who need good illustrated updates on these tropical monsters. Thanks again.
May we put a link from our site to http://www.stormpulse.com/
Hi, Just left one on the other blog stating how good the site is and how its used by Lloyds of London underwriters & brokers. One thing, check out http://www.sharkoil.bm a bermuda site. Now I prefer yours for the extra details, sharkoil is a good quick look at current storms and historical ones. However they have a superb satalitte imagery for infra red, shortwave, water vapour etc. It animates the storm movement. Far nicer to look at then static pictures so one possible area to add on and improve on. But not knocking the site as its great. The multiple forecast models are perfect. Just take a look at this site as may be ideas to take on board. regards
Excellent job. Any way to get a fully operational version for i-phones?
Great site. A lot of us follow this site. It is very good and easy to understand. I found it and passed it on, and now several of us here only use it.
thanks for the great work..
Brad and Matt - you have a fantastic website that brings all the appropriate information for tracking a storm onto one page. I’m sitting here in Houston wondering what Ike is going to do and someone turned me on to your website. Fantastic! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the good work, it feels good to have you guys around. PM Charleston SC
Hey Matt,
We all love this site and have been checking it several times a day for over a month. Charles happened to discover who “Matt” is! We are so proud to know you. Great job. We’ve told everyone who watches storms and now you are everyone’s favorite site! The BEST out there and we check them all. I like it because it is so user friendly. Love the historical tracks, too.
Phillis
Randy Cassingham of “This is True” (http://www.thisistrue.com/) posted you page as “Bonzer Site of the Week” (http://www.bonzersites.com/) and I have to agree - Great Site with information presented beautifully. Edward Tufte would be impressed by your abilities to communicate information.
From Galveston, were looking at a close one with IKE. This site is by far the best out there. One suggestion would be to put a marker dot on the land impact point, so the distance tool could be better utilized… Thanks again for hosting such an informative site.
Kendall
Hi guys,
I’m living in Puerto Plata since 15 years and found only last week your page, of course because of “Ike”. I was a bit concerned and was looking for a page were I could trace/watch this hurricane and found your page; finally. I love it.
It’s the best page about hurricanes I ever have seen. Absolutely great.
Thanks for this beautiful page,
Tassilo
Excelente “web site” me gusta mucho y la visito todos los dias
Absolutely awesome site!! Thank you guys so much for putting this all together!! This is so much better than waiting around for some newscaster to *try* to tell me where and when the hurricane might make landfall. You guys have done a superb job at collecting information - THANK YOU!!!
Matt & Brad, thanks for this website. I live in Houston and your site has been priceless !!!!
This site is awesome really easy on the eyes and the features of tracking the hurricanes is great I am the webmaster for W5RGV.net which is a ham radio site here in South Texas. I will be adding a link to this site on our skywarn and hurricane page. Keep up the great work. Oh yeah… how about some spegheti models.
Thanks guys.
Patrick N5SLI
I guess I did not hard enough for the models… thanks guys.
grat job…
I have been glued to your site and about 20 others tracking Ike. Your site is the best. It’s concise, easy to understand, filled with great information and best of all amazingly easy to navigate! My agency has it’s own small army of weather people, but they do not convey the info as well as you guys. I work for NASA (Houston) and the web address to your site is spreading across the 13,000 employees and contractors like spam email on steroids! Fantastic job!
Great site. I haven’t heard this much buzz about a site since Amazon.com. I do believe that all of Houston is ’stormpulsing’ it. Yes, you have become a verb. I do have a suggestion — In the wind speed probability summary you make the mistake of totaling all of the time period percentages together for a total percentage chance of seeing some specific wind speed. That is misleading. Eg. 4 time periods of 25% don’t equal 100%, in fact, there is a (.75)(.75)(.75)(.75) = 31% chance that you experience no high speed wind during the 4 periods. I suggest looking at pdf’s and cdf’s in a probability book, OR just use the technique above — (i.e. 100%-31%=69% chance that you will experience some high speed winds somewhere during the 4 time periods). It was an easy oversight. Good luck on your site as you have apparently ‘hit the big times’.
Best integration and display of diverse sources I’ve seen in the last 15 years. The easy access to bouy data is priceless.
Hope your fundraising is successful. You deserve all the support you can get.
Your site is amazing!
First, thank you for adding the DONATE button. I just clicked it and made a donation from my PayPal account.
May I make a request?
Please give predicted data points at 6 hour intervals.
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Under Current Atlantic Activity, the predicted path shows data points once every 24 hours. One predicted point may be over water as an H3 and the next over land may be a TS. But is the prediction between those data points such as when it makes landfall? Please give predicted data point at 6 hour intervals instead of 24.
I understand that this may have to be an interpolation but even that would help.
Again, thanks for all that you do.
- Craig
Just found your site after seeing it embedded on WFAA.com in Dallas. Great work Matt and Brad! I’ll be spreading the link to friends and family.
At first I though your site was nothing more than eye candy until I started clicking around. Wow, the pictures on your site are worth a million words.
Fantastic site. I’d swear I saw them using it on TXCN… looks like you might chat money with the Belo folks if you haven’t already.
From Corpus Christi - Great Website!.
I live in South Texas and with Hurricane Ike, Stormpulse was the only website I would use to monitor the storm. The detail you provide is much more than the other sites I used to look at.
One suggestion, possibly on the “zoom in”, provide more town/city locations. Looking at Ike right now, I see it expected to go in between Corpus Christi & Galveston. If I pull out an atlas and follow the shoreline of Texas and compare it to your graphics, it looks like the storm may go in around Freeport. It would be nice if I could see towm/city close to expected landfall.
I’ll told 10-15 people about your website.
My hat is off to Matt & Brad - good job.
Thank you for a great site.
I grew up in Houston and, though I now live in California, I still have lots of friends and family throughout the Gulf Coast area. Until I found stormpulse, it was frustrating to keep up-to-date on storms. It’s great to be able to know which storms may affect those close to me and which won’t; now I can discuss the storm situations intelligently and I don’t have to worry needlessly.
Keep up the good work!
Outstanding! The format of your website is spot on. It’s a dashboard of significant information. Exactly the type of information required when looking for storm updates. Logical layout, great selection of options, and wonderful graphics. And best of all, no stinking banner asking if you want to find your High School buddies.
Cheers to you Matt and Brad!
Here I am in Houston, Tx and Ike is on my tail. This is the best tracking site I’ve found so far and my recommendation. Great work, Matt and Brad!
WebLadyKim
I found this site a couple of weeks (via Palm Beach Post) and passed it along to family and friends. With Hurricane Ike about to spank us here in Houston, Stormpulse is THE GO TO site for everything we need to know. Thanks for an incredible experience and much needed info.
Great graphics, great site, even without surge and gust data..
Thanks for not only a very useful site for today but a trip down memory lane from my childhood in the ’60s. All the functions, colors, and depth of view you’ve incorporated into your site are great! As someone else said, a one-stop-site. Much admiration and thanks. I’ll be donating and hope many others will, too!!!
Like what I seen, Have not click all information links as of yet. I use to pay yearly for Tracking The Eye…
Your site was feature on one of our news stations WWL-TV..
Thanks for the great site. Have evacuated from the San Antonio Bay area and your site is the BEST for looking back to see if Ike is going to pay us a visit. Looking forward to using the rivers feature as so many empty into that bay.
Great job its good that you guys are keeeping track of the hurricanes and having us informes
This site is keeping me well up to date on the precise info I need to track and make decisions.
Good site, but there is no country call Zaire. It is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is THE best tracking site on the web. With all of our tax dollars, why can’t NOAA come up with something as informative as this? Please keep up the good work. Those of us who live on or near the coast need a tool like this to prepare for the worst.
We’re tracking Ike here in Houston and found your site informative and comprehensive. Thank you for offering such useful and straightforward Tool. You Guys rock
Great site.
Much better visuals than the NOAA site and other great features.
I live in the Hampton Roads area of VA and am always looking for hurricane information this time of year.
I’d like to say that I’m a multimillionaire and will be donating 100,000 but am not there yet. But I will donate $25 now and most likely more in the future.
just a note to say “greatjob”!! donation to follow
My buddy e-mailed me the URL http://www.stormpulse.com/fullscreen/current.
I wondered what was the commercial benefit for such a great site with no ads. Then I realized that it was a TRUE public service site like mine.
Great work guys. You put my dink site to shame.
My URL correction
This site is one of the best I’ve been to–and i have been everywhere. I am fascinated with weather but not too savvy. This site helps a whole lot in understanding a lot of all the tracking . Please add Cape Hatteras area to your list of cities if at all possible. You all are phenomenal!!
Jill and Steve
Thank you Matt & Brad. You’ve built the best storm tracking site I’ve ever seen.
I just sent in a donation and encourage anyone else who’s monitored a hurricane on Storm Pulse to do the same. We owe these guys a little something for their hard work.
Regards,
Todd
Just heard about Stormpluse from a friend in New Orleans. This is the best weather site on the net. I look forward to further refinements and developments. I live in S. Florida and will be watching everyday. NWS was my primary source of weather information. Now it will be Stormpluse. Thanks for your hard work
Outstanding website. We used it all week tracking IKE to Houston. I am a teacher and we also shared this site with our students as well as teachers all over our district. Thank you!
I live in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, you are the best of best. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR GREAT JOB. tHANKS, tHANKS, tHANKS. yOU ARE SO USEFUL FOR OURS ISLANDS. i HOPE YOU CAN WORK LONG TIME. tHANKS AGIAN.
I used this site extensively tracking Hurricane Ike into Houston last weekend. It really is a great tool. My only wish had been as it got closer to land if the time line dots could have been a little closer together (like every 1-2 hours) Thanks for all your hard work! (I plan to make a donation)
Awesome. This is much much better than our Government’s website, your Government’s website and any of the private sites I have seen.
Keep up the good work. Excellent.
Someone at Nascar [Daytona Beach] shot me your site as IKE approached Houston-72 hours away actually. I was fixated to your site and breath taking graphics until the very last moment the lights went out. In fact, I made a print out just before we lost power of your “arrow crecent” impact into Galveston-which I am in between Gal and Hou.
I keep that print out next to my PC. I keep it as a reminder if I “think” I am having a bad day-or week even, well, it is still paradise compared to getting hit that Sept 12th. Actually I lived on Sarasota Bay too and would have loved to have had this web site before. I was evacuated 5 times in 2004.
No one usually cares EXCEPT the news and they are just nerve wracking. I will make your site one of my causes and get donations sent your way. Your product is so beautiful and REALLY helpful to decide to leave or stay. If winds exceeded 80 MPH 20 miles in-I would have split and spent a LOT of loot, only to fight with 4 million other people for a hotel room or even gas.
Your site even helped me zero in to expected wind 20 miles in land. KUDOS DUDES! And THANK YOU!
Hey, do you know anywhere I can buy a fence and a chimney?
I am a C-130 pilot with the USAF ANG in Puerto Rico and I have used this website extensively to track TS OMAR and many others in the Caribbean and I think that this website is the most advanced weather web based storm tracking technology in recent years… kudos on a job well done…I will never rely on NOAA charts anymore, your graphics are amazing… keep up the good work, your country appreciate what you do…
I spent many many hours looking on the hurricane archive, I have to admit it’s and awesome and beautifully designed weather page!
Excellent job keep it up!
Hey!
I just wanted to say thanks for the AWESOME site! This is honestly the best site I have seen thus far! I live in the gorgeous caribbean so I am constantly on your site when a hurricane is threatning! Absolutely Brilliant site! keep up the good work!
Cheers
p.s busy tracking Paloma due to hit the Cayman Islands (where I live) yikes!!
I’m new to computers. Fortunately I stumbled over your website. You will probably put NOAA out of business.
Hi guys, your service was pointed out to me by my CEO. You’ve built a wonderful resource.
Since we run a site devoted to cutting-edge data visualization I’d be very pleased to feature you guys. Can I set up an interview with the principles?
Kind regards.
What can I say…I’m a senior citizen weather junkie and have been all my life. I had even emailed the Weather Editor here in Roanoke that does the weather for the Roanoke Times that I could forecast bum weather by either my killin’ arthritis and unfortunately Menier’s Disease.
I too heard this site mentioned on the Neal Bortz show and couldn’t wait to get home to hit the Storm Pulse! I have now watched it day after day. Great graphics for somebody that is dealing with bi-focals and bummer…a cataract. I’m a mess but your site is THE BEST.
Mary Anne