[gradsusr] HurriCone

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Suggest avoid using the term "hurricone".
I'm helping in a hospital with evacuees from Brevard County.  They think 
it's a joke making their situation sound like a dessert.
Not reacting to it well.
-scott


On 10/5/2016 4:27 PM, Jennifer M Adams wrote:
> Hi, Jeff —
> Thanks for the suggestions. Yesterday had made an ajustment to draw 
> the advisories after drawing the 10m winds, but that meant that the 
> map outline was underneath both of those things and was therefore 
> rather hard to see. I have updated today’s 12Z HurriCone maps with a 
> darker/thicker line for the map which is now drawn on top of the winds 
> and the advisories, but underneath the storm tracks, which are also a 
> tiny bit thicker.  I upticked the thickness of the advisory lines too, 
> especially for the pink line (+4) for the hurricane watch areas which 
> is harder to see next to the bright red. I don’t want any one element 
> to dominate — all things in the graphic are equally important. The 
> advisories right now do look a little like a game of pick-up-sticks, 
> but that’s how the NHC draws them; I can’t make them match the actual 
> coastline.
> —Jennifer
>
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jeffduda319 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Jennifer,
>> The geopolitical boundaries are pretty faint, which makes the 
>> advisories/warnings look like strange line segments in the middle of 
>> nowhere. I'd darken them and make the advisories thicker as well.
>>
>> Jeff Duda
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu 
>> <mailto:jadams21 at gmu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi, Everyone —
>>     I have been working on a new graphic for ensemble forecasts of
>>     storm tracks because I find that the traditional ‘cone of
>>     uncertainty’ does not have enough of the information I want to
>>     see when a major storm is in the forecast. The HurriCone is based
>>     on the 0.5-degree GEFS data and the GIS products from the NHC.
>>     Attached below is the latest version; earlier incarnations are at
>>     http://cola.gmu.edu/cone.html. The web page and the scripts are
>>     still in development. I plan to post the scripts I am using to
>>     create the graphic on the web page when they are in a final, more
>>     polished state so that anyone can draw a HurriCone if they want
>>     to. Feedback is welcome!
>>     —Jennifer
>>
>>
>>     <Matthew_2016100100.png>
>>     --
>>     Jennifer Miletta Adams
>>     Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
>>     George Mason University
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>> Jeff Duda
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>> University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
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