User blog:Raindrop57/(For fun) - Hurricane Intensity Estimating!

Happy hurricane season! (Well, at least when a hurricane isn't hitting land!) Anyway, I often look at hurricanes and am like "the NHC has the intensity of this storm WAY too low", or "there is no way that's still a hurricane!". So I decided to have some fun with it by comparing the intensity of a storm according to the NHC with how strong I thought the storm was. Here's the results of Hurricane Gaston:



(Yes, sorry about the "Untitled" stuff on the bottom, I couldn't find a way to change that without modifying them one by one). Anyway, I thought this would be fun to share, and I have one of these going for hurricane Newton currently. If anyone else wants to join in, just post your estimated intensity of the storm for each advisory time - I usually do so by looking at the few closest satellite image frames to the current advisory time. (I use the satellite images found in tropical products and tropical floaters on www.ssd.noaa.gov).

Anyway, that concludes my first blog post. Stay safe as the 2016 northern hemisphere hurricane season continues! ~ Raindrop (Rain rules!) 23:48, September 5, 2016 (UTC)