ColinDelia wrote:Morning everyone. Here is a good tool for estimating how close the eye of a storm will pass to your location on the forecast track.
The site is here: http://stormcarib.com/closest.htm
For anyone that needs detailed instructions:
1. You'll need your latitude and longitude in decimals.
a. If you are in the US go here http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm click on "latitude and longitude" and type in your zip code. Skip to step 2.
b. If you are in Canada go here: http://www.postalcodedownload.com/ and work your way to your lat/long with your zip code. Skip to step 2.
c. If you are somewhere else you can get your latitude and longitude from wikipedia. Just type in your city name and look at "Coordinates" under the map in the right side menu.
d. Copy your latitude and longitude to convert it
e. Go here: http://www.earthpoint.us/Convert.aspx
f. paste your latitude and longitude into "position" (It'll start in a format like this: 28°32′37″N 81°22′22″W)
g. Click "calc" then get your position in "degrees lat long"
2. Next, Go here: http://stormcarib.com/closest.htm
Look for where it says "Currently tracking Earl" It says "Skip to prefilled form". Click on "skip to prefilled form"
This will fill in the most recent coordinates from the National Hurricane Center official forecast.
3. Just type in your coordinates from step (1) to get your closest expected distance.
Don't forget a hurricane is not a point and there is potential error in the forecast track.
That is pretty cool...
Although when I entered my coordinates, with Earl's current track... This is what it said...
How close can it get? wrote:Results for 44.739624N, -63.396355E:
The approximate Closest Point of Approach (CPA) is located near 45.0N, 63.9W or about 29.6 miles (47.6 km) from your location. The estimated time of when the center of the storm will be at that location is in about 111.2 hours (Saturday, September 4 at 8:12PM AST).
Praying for a just a little bit more recurve...
I vaguely remember that I once knew how to do such math!!! LOL.
