Math in the News: Issue 65
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Hurricane Sandy is threatening the U.S. East Coast with strong winds and heavy rains, and various predictive models from the National Weather Service illustrate its likely path and potential storm surge impacts. These models provide helpful information for preparations as cities brace for landfall, indicating that the storm will weaken upon reaching land. For additional updates and comparisons of predicted versus actual paths, resources are available through the Hurricane Sandy archive.
Math in the News: Issue 65
- 1. Math in the News Tracking Hurricane Sandy The East Cost of the U.S. is bracing for Hurricane Sandy. It will bring strong winds, heavy rains, and storm surge to coastal areas. In this issue we look at various maps put together by the U.S. Weather Service that predict where the hurricane will make land fall. These predictive models provide helpful information for those planning for the hurricane’s arrival.
- 2. Math in the News See the archive on Hurricane Sandy. http://search.usa.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov&query= hurricane+sandy&affiliate=nws.noaa.gov
- 3. Math in the News The National Weather Service developed probability models that showed the most likely path of the hurricane. You can see a wide cone of possible paths.
- 4. Math in the News While the probability model doesn’t show the exact point where the hurricane makes landfall, the graph clearly shows that Sandy will go from Hurricane to Storm once it reaches land.
- 5. Math in the News This probability model shows where the storm surge is most likely to occur. Storm surges cause coastal flooding.
- 6. Math in the News A side-by-side view of the maps shows that where the hurricane makes landfall the storm surge will be greatest.
- 7. Math in the News Compare the predicted path to the actual path by visiting the Hurrican Sandy archive. http://search.usa.gov /search?v%3Aproject= firstgov&query= hurricane+sandy&affiliate=n ws.noaa.gov