Friday October 21, 2005
Wilma
Wilma Topograph

Sorry about the cheesiness of my little "infographic" here...USA Today I'm not. It's an attempt at merging a topographic map of the Gulf of Mexico with a satellite shot of Wilma, as of 8pm last night. I grabbed both of the images from the chief weather guy's blogs over at wunderground weather blogs.

Looks like Mexico is going to have a rough time of it the next couple days after which a swing through Florida with perhaps a Cuban night along the way. After all of that she's expected to head up the coast, combine with a huge low pressure system and park on top of Northern New England for a bit.

The next image is my take on a barometric pressure chart, which normally shows the pressure levels as different color intensities. Instead I've rendered it such that higher pressures are "hills" and low pressures are valleys or, in the hurricane Wilma's case, sink holes. A topographical pressure map of sorts. For reference there are high pressure systems due east and west of Wilma and up in the mid-west there's a low pressure system...the same one they are expecting to drag Wilma eastward, which hasn't happened yet.


3d pressure