I'm a little confused by the swirling pattern. It doesn't represent the eye, it seems to merely by a pattern to denote the highest wind speeds, not the spiral of a hurricane.
The reason I say this is in the lower right there are three models in the lower right and the center of the pattern moves around when you select each one. Also, with one of the options, it puts the center on the coast at Fort Pierce as I write this, however it's off the coast of Palm Beach and hasn't made landfall anywhere.
I also notice that the size of the eye changes depending on your zoom level. There are a number of ways you could explain that, but it's not clear what's actually going on.
It is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned.
Feeling it here in Sarasota, FL, mildly. It's forecast to do a strange loop, heading north and spiraling back to approximately where it presently is, but a bit N/E. It will be interesting if it does. And Nicole is right on its tail.
Watching my trees here in Tampa, the kids school getting canceled and having to change our plans for the day is about the biggest impact we've felt here.
Ohh and the roads were wide open when we went out for breakfast.
Little more than grey skies and a little sea-side chop here today. A relative in the St Augustine area, however, has reported loss of the entire garden, vicious winds and sustained power outage. Trees were expected to come down, as of a few hours ago.
"Wide open" roads in Tampa is difficult to imagine.
Nope. Latest projected path from the National Hurricane Center has it hitting the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina before heading back out to sea:
Wouldn't they select an essentially flood proof location?
(the economic factors that drive settlement in flood prone regions don't really apply to data centers, so I would expect it to be accounted for even by much less sophisticated operations)
