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 2009 Hurricane Season Notes
2009 Houston/Galveston Hurricane Workshop
The 2009 hurricane season is here! The Houston/Galveston National Weather Service Office held its
2009 Hurricane Workshop on Saturday, May 30th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
As always, admission was free and open to the public. Thanks for all who made it out to the workshop, and we hope to see you again next year.
For those interested, the keynote speaker's powerpoint presentation is available here,
and the workshop booklet is available here.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week was May 24-30, 2009.
Preparedness video (Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) June 2009.
Preparedness video (General Information) July 2009.
Preparedness video (Hurricane Ike - It Could Have Been A Lot Worse) August 2009.
2009 Hurricane Preparedness Meetings and Workshops can be found here.
General Information
NOAA has an
Historical Hurricane Tracks webpage that allows you to easily search
and display more than 150 years (thru the 2008 season) of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone data.
Of the many threats to residents of Southeast Texas, perhaps the most recognized
is the Tropical Cyclone. Below is a list of some information regarding this menace.
Atlantic Hurricane Season Summaries
Hurricane Forecasting
While forecasting in itself is hard enough, forecasting hurricanes is by far more difficult.
The intrepid Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University endeavors to do so. He and his team
of researchers publishes a forecast and an updated forecast every year on what they think is
going to happen. Here's the latest from
Dr Gray, et al.
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