The number of hurricanes have doubled over the last ten years, with meteorologists predicting another decade or two of elevated activity. A pair of companies have new mobile applications to help the approximately 85 million U.S. coastal residents get a handle on what’s going on during the peak of the storm season, August through October.
SurvivorSoft’s Hurricane Tracker ($18.95) is an application for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 2003 devices that monitors storms within the Atlantic Basin and Gulf of Mexico. My-Cast Digital Cyclone, has added a new Hurricane Tracker to version 5.0 of its My-Cast mobile weather service application. With the new feature, users can see the projected path of a hurricane or tropical storm in real-time with satellites focused directly on the eye of the storm.