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Hurricane Tips From Cuba
Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press

HAVANA — Old computer processors whirred and paint crumbled from the walls in the National Prognostic Center of Cuba’s Meteorological Institute, set on a rise above Havana’s old city. Half a dozen meteorologists shifted their gaze between satellite images on large video screens and a giant overhead map of the United States.

They monitor the region’s weather every day, but their gaze grows especially intense in hurricane season.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/scienc...-cuba.html?_r=0

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US-Wetterdienst verdoppelt seine Rechenkraft

Der US-amerikanische Wetterdienst hat zwei neue Supercomputer in Betrieb genommen und damit seine Rechenkraft verdoppelt. Der Supercomputer "Tide" in Reston (Virginia) und sein Backup "Gyre" in Orlando (Florida) verfügen über eine Rechenkraft von jeweils 213 TFlops. Die Vorgängersysteme kamen auf 90 TFlops, teilt die Behörde National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bekannt. So will der Wetterdienst insbesondere für die Hurrikan-Saison bessere Vorhersagen liefern, damit sich die Menschen wappnen können.

http://heise.de/-1926687

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Letters
Cuba’s Hurricane Watch

TO THE EDITOR:

Re “Hurricane Tips From Cuba” (July 30): Cuba’s advantages over the United States in minimizing hurricane damage were dramatically evident more than a century ago. The 1900 Galveston hurricane took Texas by surprise because the Weather Bureau in Washington ignored the expertise of Cuba’s forecasters, projecting the storm to travel up the east coast of Florida and then north; the Cubans knew it was going west.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/scienc...watch.html?_r=0

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