Last weekend,
Tropical Storm Barry gave a windy and wet introduction to the 2007
Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
Barry quickly lost its punch, but even after it was downgraded to a tropical depression, it still left behind flooding, event cancellations and pockets of destruction from
Tampa Bay to
New York. As of today, AccuWeather.com located Barry hanging around northeast Maine, dumping nearly 3 inches of rain that has drenched the Atlantic seaboard since yesterday.
There was some good news. Barry's drenching rains helped southeast Georgia and northeast Florida firefighters in their continuing battle with tinder-dry swamps and woodlands. But Barry's biggest benefit may be the way it signaled the opening of hurricane season.
It was a kind of meteorological wake-up call, one that sent hurricane watchers clicking to their favorite online hurricane trackers.
In this three-part package, you will find:
- Another list of sites, the favorites of a survivor of Hurricane Andrew, the 1992 storm registered as the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history. (That distinction, of course, passed on to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.)
- An interview with the developer of a local newspaper Web site's hurricane tracker.
Hope you enjoy what you find.
is a map showing, state by state and then county...
