HOURLY LOCATION WANTED,even if only photo basis fm epals

[john186292]

too hard to find location data!! why doesnt nhc post hourly updates based on photos laid on a lighttable with microscopes and fine crosshairs to get it exact even from photos, then TELL us how the crucial lattitude move is going. Pls, some fellow posters here, do that or some approximation of that at home, and post hourly here. We would all love to see it. ////////Ditto a "heading" in degrees. NHC leaves that off of most products, strangely. Just the vague "wnw'. Totally inadequate, we need DEGREES in this situation, where a few degrees make ALL the difference in landfall position later. Is nhc the victim of an office "culture" with big problems, just like the sister agency up the coast, called NASA?

[vbhoutex]

NHC is not the victim of anything IMO. They are doing an excellent job with the tools they have available. They have a lot more important thing to do than to provide hourly "pinpoint" fixes on the eye of a MASSIVE MONSTER HURRICANE whose effects literally cover thousands of square miles. The positions they give us are plenty for what we need them for and once she approaches closer to land they will be coming every 3 hours. Remember we can tell the trend of where she is going by watching the sat loops ourselves. Also remember a Hurricane is not a pinpoint but a storm that is literally hudreds of miles across.

[JetMaxx]

If NHC issued hourly updates on major hurricanes far at sea, they'd scare people to death with every wobble...

Once a hurricane warning is posted and Isabel gets within radar range (200-250 miles) of the coast, NHC will give more frequent updates...usually on the hour near time of landfall; but to do it now would be ridiculous.

[BEER980]

They only have a $4 million budget.