Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict
[ Wed, 1 Sep 2010 23:28:10 GMT ]

Gladys Rubio answers phone calls, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 as powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend.Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.


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