Tuesday August 30, 2005
Tuesday August 30, 2005 National Data Buoy Center
The NDBC runs a fantastic website that gives access to real-time data from buoys in coastal waters around the US. I was planning to post some interesting graphs based on data from buoys off the coast of New Orleans to show the ocean effects of Katrina as it came ashore, but the NDBC website has been down since Monday morning. I found out why when I contacted NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) earlier today.
The National Data Buoy Center is physically located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi which was directly in the path of Katrina as it came ashore. The storm surge in Bay St. Louis reached 22 feet and the town has been severely damaged.
I hope the NDBC staff and their families are safe and wish them the best in the trying times ahead as the area recovers from the devastation created by Katrina's passing.
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Posted by Jon Hamlin on August 31, 2005 at 06:15 AM EDT #
I hope to be able to do that, though there is a question as to whether buoy data will have been lost due to the outage.
I did download data from a few buoys on Monday morning and may post some of that in the meantime.
Posted by Josh Simons on August 31, 2005 at 08:04 AM EDT #