The future of storm forecasting, and using algebra for faster broadband
When a monster storm roars out of the Caribbean as Hurricane Sandy has, lives and billions of dollars can hang in the balance. So what technology is in the pipeline to help us react quicker? Jeff Masters, the director of meteorology at Weather Underground, which has become one of the most popular online weather services in the world thanks in part to crowdsourcing weather information from its twenty thousand users, says:
“We try not to be the ones providing all the info… We try and draw in resources from as many weather enthusiasts as we can. Web cams that people have in their back yards, or weather stations. Or if they’ve got photos they send us–we take all of that information and make it available.”
