Re: It's a bug in the software that generates that - O/T
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 11/1/2018, 11:50 pm
I kept the change I made making 134.6 knots to be 154.4 mph instead of 154.9 mph. That made the map use the right coloring for the dot. I didn't need to change the knots. In the other places I could find, including the map popup, I now have code to change 154.4 mph to 155 mph. That seems to make things look right, as if I was able to adjust the issue in the mapping code. The HamWeather system is made up of a few hundred files with code and over 1,500 files when considering various other files it needs. I believe the mapping I would need to change is handled in one particular 200 kilobyte file that is encoded using base64. I tried to decode it but couldn't.

Based on various variables that I can configure, yet can't find being used anywhere even though they do make changes to the map when I adjust them, some of the tropical map making seems to occur in this particular file. (aptly named "MakeTropMap")

While sorting that out I also found what variable I needed to update to have invests on the front page of the system. So now invests appear on the front page of that system. That concludes the HamWeather updates.

I happened to look at the monthly summary tab in the HamWeather system and the monthly tropical weather summary for October was available today. We already know Michael hasn't changed, but here it is anyway:





ABNT30 KNHC 011148
TWSAT

Monthly Tropical Weather Summary
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Thu Nov 1 2018

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

October was above average in the Atlantic basin. Three named
storms formed during the month, with a fourth (Leslie) beginning
in September and carrying over into October. Three of these storms
became hurricanes during the month, and one became a major
hurricane. This compares to October averages of two named storms
and one hurricane every year, and a major hurricane about every
third year.

In terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), which measures the
combined strength and duration of tropical storms and hurricanes,
activity in the Atlantic basin thus far in 2018 has been above
normal. The season has already had 7 systems that were subtropical
at some point in their lifetime, which eclipses the previous record
of 5 in 1969.

Reports on individual cyclones, when completed, are available at
the National Hurricane Center website at
www.hurricanes.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2018&basin=atl .

Summary Table

Name Dates Max Wind (mph)
---------------------------------------------------
TS Alberto 25-31 May 65
H Beryl 4-15 Jul 80
H Chris 6-12 Jul 105
TS Debby 7- 9 Aug 50
TS Ernesto 15-18 Aug 45
MH Florence 31 Aug-17 Sep 140
TS Gordon 3- 7 Sep 70
H Helene 7-16 Sep 110
H Isaac 7-15 Sep 75
TS Joyce 12-18 Sep 45
TD Eleven 22-23 Sep 35
TS Kirk 22-28 Sep 60
H Leslie 23 Sep-13 Oct 90
MH Michael 7-12 Oct 155
TS Nadine 9-12 Oct 65
H Oscar 27-31 Oct 105
---------------------------------------------------

Denotes a storm for which the post-storm analysis is complete.

$$
Hurricane Specialist Unit
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