UPDATED (06/25): New forecast track map fixed!

[ncweatherwizard]

I've added 2005 Ophelia and 2004 Jeanne to the top post to show an example of a slow moving storm. Problem is these examples are fairly easy because the points are so close. It's still a bit buggy if the storm moves, stalls, then starts moving again. Still, you can get the idea of what a cone for a slow moving storm looks like.

Very nice. The numbers are a little hard to read, but that would be the easy part to fix. Not sure if you might want to have a dot at the forecast point and the number off to the side, which would work later in the cone, but might get crowded in the early forecast points. Of course with another font if might look fine.

Like what fact789 said, I would like to see a forecast for a sharp curve, a stall, and a complete loop. If your graphic can handle that, then you have an excellent image.

I'll have to get on those numbers once I get the difficult stuff done. You're right though; they are difficult to read.

[Chris_in_Tampa]

I just wanted to note that on your home page the link to your forecast verifications needs to be corrected from:
http://www.nencweather.com/tropicalweat ... r2007.html
To:
http://www.nencweather.com/tropicalweat ... 2007.shtml

The graphics for a slow moving storm look great. I guess the hard part is drawing a black line around it when it is like that, because how it should look crossing itself would be complicated.

[ncweatherwizard]

Did my best to fix the numbers along the track--I don't have alot of fonts to deal with. I may work later on moving the numbers off the track and including a line from the number to a marker along the track.

I originally didn't want to have the black line, then an old line of code from the early version put it up there somewhat by accident so I didn't take it off. I had the black line so that it traced the outside of the gray area, but it is really complicated when a storm starts looping or stalling, so I just took it off like I had planned originally--it puts a boundary on an uncertainty cone, something that doesn't really have a clear boundary.

Thanks for the heads up on the link too.