Latest updates to IBISEYE goes live

[Mo]

The biggest difference is the addition of several satellite overlays
(click on alerts tab to select.)

My favorite is the color enhanced layers that really gives a good
sense of the weather that the NHC is following (points of interest.)

Cheers,
Mo

[Beverly K. Mott]

Finally had a chance to really sit down and test out all the options, goodies, search functions, layers, etc.  The alerts are really nice, and being able to click the alert and bring up the NWS info is fantastic. Everything functioned as it should, there were no lockups, no serious time-delays, it was efficient and intuitive.

Although it took me a few mouse scrolls to get used to how quickly the zoom function works.  It moves in and out very rapidly, I got accustomed to it.

I spent a lot of time on the historical tracks. I love it!  It functions very smooth and efficiently and is very intuitive.  I had no trouble selecting up to 10 storms, though loading time is a bit slow, not to a degree which makes it uncomfortable to use.

Now, I know you didn't just want all back-patting, :-) so here are the things I noticed that were less than perfect:

1.  This isn't a bug, it's an aesthetic/user issue.  To differentiate wind speeds you have chosen the green to red spectrum.  The problem I found is that the orange color differences are simply too subtle to allow me to determine the category of storm based on the color of the wind field.  The problem was pronounced when looking at historic tracks.  For example, I honestly could not tell you whether Charley had Cat 1, 2 or 3 winds when he hit Lakeland.  It's nice to use the same color spectrum for continuity but it renders the wind field data useless as far as color categorization.  I would stare hard at the chips on the right and then try to compare them to the colors in the wind field, but eventually gave up.  I could not be certain which color matched best.  In addition, the category 4 is a deeper red than a category 5, which doesn't match the progression you've laid out.

2.  On some storms, particularly large ones where the wind field overlaps significantly, the windfield graphic is opaque enough to blot out the map entirely, making it impossible to see which cities were affected.  For example, try to see where hurricane Donna landed or which cities her wind field affected. (with wind field enabled).  (don't know if this is correctable, but thought I'd mention it.)

3. Minor:  When you click the points of interest... in the text field, a right parenthesis is not being stripped.  Usually shows up in the first line, and when compared to the expanded data it appears to be the parenthesis that belongs to "(point of interest #xx)"  

Overall, just love it!

Bev Mott

[Beverly K. Mott]

On the "Alerts", there is a precipitation overlay. It shows
precipitation currently along the west coast of Fla, where it is not
raining....

Does this show precipitation totals for the last 24 hours?

[Mo]

Bev et al ...

Though We haven't change out color palette I've tweaked the opacity of
the windfield overlays. Still not perfect, but better; i've got a
couple of thoughts to improve it even more.

I've also tweaked the point of interest popup feed, which I think
works much better.

Thanks again for your comments.

Cheers,
Mo

PS check out the satellite overlays we've added (click on the alerts
tab.)