Tracking Rita

My meteorology prof has us doing the coolest thing. He had us print out a Hurricane Tracking Chart, then go to the National Hurricane Center website. Every couple of hours they post another Public Advisory about the Hurricane Rita. At the end of that report is a summary that gives the wind speeds, direction of travel, and pressure level, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates of the storm that I plug into my map.

I’ve been watching this thing since it was still a tropical storm near the Bahamas. Mr. B also asked us all to send him our prediction of the location of landfall by noon today for extra credit. The closer we are, the more credit we’ll get. I chose Sabine Pass, TX, which is basically right on the Texas/Louisiana border.

According to the 10 PM update, my location will still be a little bit west of the actual landfall of the eye of the storm. I should have known! They always seem to turn east just a little more than people expect them to just before landfall. Sigh!

The end result of my map will be pretty cool.