the more you know, the safer you re going to be. what is great now is the internet as a whole is providing a lot more data and more information for people to look at. it starts with know wnoaa.gov,s had page on the web, where you can go and see all sorts of really granular information. this page, it is made for meteorologists. the information there is really good. complex. it can be a little hard for a regular person to parse. a lot of awesome nerds are out there making things easier for people to look at. storm pulse is another website, stormpulse.com, go on any web browser, your computer, old computer, new computer, ipad, iphone and see a lot of the hurricane tracking. it is really helpful. if you have an ipad, though, there are some very, very, very good apps that make it sort of wysiwyg and fun and you ll obsess over it like i have been. what about kitty code? they make an app called hurricane hd, really simple, drilled down, shows you where
computer model forecast, the spaghetti charts, as we show them. this is from stormpulse.com, and there you can see the area we re watching, and those models all coming together pretty well, bringing them at earliest approach toward winward island probably not until thursday. if we would be talking about a u.s. impact which is possible, at the earliest, it would be about a week to a week and a half from now. so still a lot of question marks associated with this system. when we talk about the cape verdes and the development here, this is a typical area where we would see tropical storms or hurricanes develop in the month of august. so this green area across much of the atlantic into the caribbean, gulf of mexico, we can even see development across the east coast this time of year, and this darker orange area here across the leeward and winward islands is the area where most of them occur. just to kind of put this in perspective, and this is getting close to what we would call peak hurric