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Hurricanes and Breakpoints
Aug 14, 2008 | 11:58 AM
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With hurricane season now upon us, you may be interested to know, how the Hurricane Center down in Miami determines the

city or land marker that will define coastal watches and warnings.  They call them "breakpoints", and they are basically just a

distribution of locales that mark the end or beginning of a coastal information event.

For example, when they issue those coastal advisories, instead of listing them counties...they instead issue them based on coastal landmarks.  For example, a hurricane warning may stretch from Port O'Conner in Texas...down to the Texas/Mexico Border.  Each of the starting sports and ending spots of the warning, are the breakpoints.  Of course, they run up and down the Texas Coast, the Gulf Coast, and from Florida all the way up to Maine.

Hunt for your breakpoint(s) here:  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/breakpoints.shtml

 Scott Fisher

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Scott_Fisher

Chief Meteorologist FOX 7 Television. My first blog!

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