Hurricane Gustav GIS data, Imagery and path compared to Katrina

Wow, dejavu! Here we am almost 3 years to the day on a Sunday morning as I find myself searching around for some real-time imagery and data showing a major Hurricane headed towards the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Perhaps the quickest way to access imagery and graphics showing the path of Gustav is via WeatherUnderground. NOAA's hurricane center is also a must-visit resource as is the NOAA NowCoast real-time webmapping service at http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
Perhaps of interest to some of you is the GIS data product available from NOAA (SHP file) for storm surge probabilities (.ZIP) - see NOAA for latest data updates. For more image captures from Hurricane Gustav and Katrina see here.

Other relevant weblinks:

• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes
• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html
• http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/query_expediter.html
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml
• http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
• http://www.osei.noaa.gov/
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/allison01.htm
• Hurricane Evacuation zone maps
• Hurricane prepardeness
• http://www.giscorps.org/
• Track Flooding During Tropical Storm Gustav in Real-Time
• Preparing for the 2008 Hurricane Season

Hurricane Gustav as seen Sunday AM via NOAA Goes Imagery
GOEES Imagery from 2005 showing the well developed eye of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Gustav path (Source: WeatherUnderground) Interesting as compared to the path that Hurricane Katrina took in 2005 (below)