A new Web site lets you chase Tornados without risking life and limb.
The University of Michigan's Tornado Paths site allows visitors to zoom in on cities or step back and look at the United States as a whole to see where twisters hit each day (alas, none had hit in the past 24 hours...not that I was wishing anyone got whacked, just wanted to see what they looked like on the site).
The site, which updates every 10 minutes and was developed by professor Perry Samson, blends data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Google Maps and Google Earth.
"As tornado chasers, it's interesting for us to know where the storms have been and have a record of them," the stormchasing Samson said in a statement. "This Web site is another way for those interested in weather to get a sense for what's going on."
Maybe we at Network World should come up with a site to track all our references to perfect storms since "The Perfect Storm" book and movie exploded onto the scene years ago.
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