Killer creampuffs.....
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Posted on 04/03/2007 7:04:24 AM PDT by Ellesu
It can portray a hurricane in stunning detail. It's powered by a supercomputer that can perform 14 trillion calculations a second. And starting in June, it should help tropical meteorologists project whether a storm will arrive as a killer or a creampuff. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It can portray a hurricane in stunning detail. It's powered by a supercomputer that can perform 14 trillion calculations a second. And starting in June, it should help tropical meteorologists project whether a storm will arrive as a killer or a creampuff. The sophisticated new forecast model could be the Holy Grail that forecasters have long sought to sharply improve their hurricane intensity predictions and give emergency managers and residents alike more time to prepare accordingly. "This is the first time a hurricane model will have its own analysis of the center of the hurricane's structure," said Naomi Surgi of the National Weather Service, who spearheaded the model's development. "This is really pushing the frontiers of science." Although forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County have achieved record accuracy in projecting the path of a storm, they still struggle to gauge its power. South Floridians received an unpleasant reminder of this meteorological soft spot in August when Tropical Storm Ernesto was predicted to plow ashore as a hurricane. After thousands of residents scrambled to put up shutters, the system arrived as nothing more than a squally nuisance. Enter the new model, officially called the Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast system, or "H-werf "for short.
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WOW! Now they can be wrong a whole lot faster!
The ultimate computer will only be as good as it’s data input.
GIGO.
Killer creampuffs.....
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I recall that the last ‘ultimate computer’ completely missed a one foot snow storm the very next day after it was put in service.
ping a ling
LOL! WTF??! BTW, AFAIK TANSTAAFL, IMHO!
TTFN
“Record accuracy”? They’ve broken their own record? They’ve gotten better, one would expect, but this statement suggests NHC has it “down to a science”. Hardly.
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I predict that we will have some hurricanes this year or maybe we won’t. I am 100% accurate.
Nothing beats the Free Republic hurricane discussion crew.
Tune in this summer and see.
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WTH?
Is the Karl Rove software package installed on this computer?
Will it tell Ray Nagin when to start the school buses rolling???
The story neglected to mention that after processing the first data set, the computer concluded that Al Gore is an idiot.
Will it tell Ray Nagin when to start the school buses rolling???
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WTH?
WAYAR?
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