Seven years ago, this was a hurricane app for the Atlantic only until I approached the developer to make some overall positive changes to this app to include the Eastern and Central Pacific including a radar map for the Hawaiian Islands.
Since that time, we’ve seen several GOES satellites come and go in which we lost some key features over the years.
On March 1,2022, NOAA launched the new GOES-T Satellite to be renamed to GOES-18 once it reaches it’s final orbit, which it did on May 13-22, 2022 after some orbital adjustments. This satellite will be renamed again in May 2023 to GOES-West after the next satellite launch here in a few months in the cue.
Some of those key features will come back with the next satellite launch such as the world Sea Surface Temperature Map( SST) Interactive and the South Eastern Pacific Radar Map Interactive with the next several weeks. This entire app is interactive and it much easier to sense the direction, speed, size and intensity of a named hurricane.
It’s a lot of labor and hard work involved to connect, match up data and update this interactive real time hurricane radar maps to this new GOES-18 Satellite feed but you will notice that these interactive Doppler Radar maps are like no other in Apple’s App Store currently.
Currently, the Hawaiian Islands are under hurricane threats from Bonnie, which was downgraded and Darby, which was just upgraded to a CAT 3 but will hopefully pass south of the Hawaiian Islands this weekend while we are experiencing Kings Tides.
On this Saturday, July 16 from 9am to 12noon, the Makani ‘Ino ARES Hurricane Drill will happen at the same time along with the RIMPAC 2022 Military Exercise to add some possible realistic data and Amateur Radio EmComm Communications that couldn’t have any better timing than this to add some realism to these important exercises.
With that said, this Hurricane App with be playing a key role with us doing mobile operations including on several military bases this coming Saturday morning. As the Net Controller for the Honolulu NWS SKYWARN Program at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Campus, this app is going to play a vital role for me while on the road and while going to each mobile preplanned location on my iPhone.
Please support this app as improvements will be made over the next couple of months. A big Mahalo!
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