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Mike:
Thanks everyone. Glad you like them!  :). Here's yet another .... from a global perspective.

Star4000 Fan:
^Ah, the global disk satellites.  Those were a rare treat.  I liked how they put them in every so often.

That wind gust map was cool, too.  They use those "HD frames" for numbers today - you can't fit nearly as much information as you could before.

....and the radars - I loved the three-letter identifiers.  I started to learn the cities by their codes.  Those three letters often have meanings/history to them.
CMH - Port Columbus Airport (Ohio) actually stands for Columbus Municipal Hangar.

Lightning:

--- Quote from: twcc_Mike on September 05, 2010, 09:45:57 AM ---The wind field map was and still is a useful feature. It is simple yet effective. I've provided a comparison of wind field maps from 1989 (Hugo) and the recent Earl hurricane. The color scheme is different though. Another map used in the tropical reports displayed the actual wind gusts (also pictured). It was a good representation of what the top winds were at various locations on a single map covering a broad region during each updated interval. It was kept simple, easy to read and didn't include other info that might have been distracting. Actually many of the maps, etc. used in the earlier days were like that.

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It is interesting to see both the differences and the similarities of the graphics of both now and then.

phw115wvwx:
The wind field map is certainly a very important reminder to the public that a hurricane is not just a point as people get too focused on the dot representing the center.  Even NHC has created a tropical wind field map similar to the one shown from Hugo except that it's just tropical storm winds in orange, hurricane winds in red, and the watches and warnings in various colors for every advisory.  I really liked the mid-90s tropical update maps on TWC, especially during 1995 with that crazy hurricane season.

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