What Goes Into Hurricane Forecasting? Satellites, Supercomputers And More
The latest hurricane models are using lightning-fast supercomputers to crunch ever-more data. And they're getting better.
Where will it go? How strong will it be? When will it hit? Those are the answers everyone wants — not the least of which are the hurricane forecasters themselves.
To get those answers, hundreds of millions of data points — everything from wind speeds to sea temperatures — pouring in from satellites, aircraft, balloons, buoys and ground stations are fed into the world's fastest computers and programmed with a variety of models at different resolutions, some looking at the big picture,
