Here's your chance! Have you ever wondered how the Meteorologists at the National Weather Service issue warnings? What do they look at? Do you think you could do better then they do?
The National Weather Service in Atlanta (Peachtree City) has come up with a game where you are given views of the doppler radar. You have to issue the severe storm and tornado warnings based on what you see. The game is based on an actual tornadic event so after the simulation is over you are graded on what was actually observed.
So, you think you can make it as a forecaster? Try it by clicking here. (Don't worry, there's a nice tutorial before you begin.)
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Ah! It's totally addicting! Awesome game!
Haha awesome... I didn't know there was anything like this.
273050 was my final. I don't catch anything until after the reports haha... I wouldn't be too good at this.
Thanks for the game eric! another awesome game you might want to try is tornado jockey. you are a tornado and you go around destroying the most structures you can and build your tornado up to an F5. you can find it by googling it.
This was fun. I was doing pretty well, got most of the watches off in the right places & on time in Scenario 1 - but then I had to quit before it was done because I was doing it at work and my boss walked in. (Oops)
Too bad I don't have a good enough connection to play it at home!
So what is a good score on this anyway? Eric, Adam, Candace?
What kind of scores do you pros get?
I got all the tornado warnings in the right places at the right times, and didn't get fooled by the false report. But I missed the dime sized hail. Is that really a bad miss?
I notice that you lose just as many points for missing pea sized hail as you do for missing baseball sized hail. In real life it seems like one of those is a worse "miss" than the other one.
I think I got a 325000 score when I did it last week. I haven't done the second or third game...when the weather quiets down a bit, I will give it a try. -ERIC
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