Hurricane Katrina Web Resources

Sunday August 28, 2005

For those of you who are keeping track of the massive storm hovering off the Gulf coast about to swoop in on New Orleans, Louisiana, here are a few good Web resources:

New Orleans guide Sharon Keating keeps up with Hurricane Katrina; her most recent post, Please Pray for Us, pretty much says it all.
National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center: Get all your storm info here, including satellite imagery, aircraft recon, storm advisories, and more.
Hurricane Katrina Updates: Florida for Visitors Guide Dawn Henthorn is doing a great job of keeping everyone in the path of Katrina updated.
Google News - keyword "katrina": Frequent updates from thousands of sources.
Flickr Katrina Clusters: Already a lot of photos of the incoming storm, I'm thinking from the already hard-hit Florida Miami-Dade area.
NOLA: Hurricane center for the New Orleans area.
StormDigest: Via Jeff Jarvis; up to the minute updates.
Technorati Search for New Orleans: Tons of bloggers are talking about this; at last check more than 110,000 posts had been tagged with "New Orleans."
Technorati Search for Hurricane: Again, lots of posts tagged with the word "hurricane."
Hurricane Katrina: Forecasts, storm advisories, storm track plots, storm strike probabilities, and current storm tracking data.
National Weather Service Radar Image - Long Range Composite Reflectivity - Northwest Florida: Just what it sounds like. Refresh your browser to update.
Jay's Hurricane Images: Excellent collection of satellite and radar images of Hurricane Katrina from all over the Web.
Central Florida Hurricane Center: Incredible pictures on this site right now, along with up to the minute updates.
News from Hurricane Land: A Florida-centric view of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Flickr Hurricane Tagged Photos: Feed of everyone's photos tagged with "hurricane", not necessarily all Katrina.
Wikipedia - Hurricane Katrina: Lots of good information that is being updated frequently by various contributors.
Collection of various on the scene webcams:
- SunCamTv: Includes a slide show from Hurricane Katrina as it hit Florida.
- Extreme Weather Webcams: Views from all over the place, both in Florida and the now waiting New Orleans.
- Hurricane City Cams: "During any hurricane warnings in the Atlantic basin ,live audio and video will be done on the hurricane threatening land."
- HurricaneTrack: Features updates and commentary as well as webcams.