FORT LAUDERDALE. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) U.S. use social networks as an information tool in the Atlantic hurricane season.
Bill Read, director of CNH, said in an interview that the agency Efe is on Facebook since January and plan to create an account on Twitter, this being "the first time that the Weather Service would use that network."
"I'm in the process of trying to create a Twitter account where people can get updated information about the warnings we issue in the storms and thus can go to our website, Read ahead. The NHC, based in Miami, debuted on Facebook January 7 with the following message: "We are very excited to be part" of this network and "very busy preparing for the 2011 hurricane season."
On his Facebook page with over 5,000 fans, the NHC has issued a number of its activities and forums in which their members participate at the national level, photos of hurricane hunter aircraft and teleconferences with the Federal Agency Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The role of social networks is one of the issues discussed today in the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of Governor's Hurricane held in Fort Lauderdale, north of Miami, with the participation of public and private organizations across the country.
In fact, one of the workshops of the conference "Social networking: the new way to communicate during emergencies," organized by Dave Bujak, the emergency management coordinator for Florida State University, will underscore the importance of employment . "One of the major lessons learned from recent emergencies in the university is that, like it or not, social networks will be used by citizens to communicate during emergencies," said Bujak.
Forecasters believe how useful will this new information tool in the 2011 hurricane season in the Atlantic when it is expected the formation of 16 named storms and 9 hurricanes, of which five have winds above 138 kilometers per hour. The forecast of a less active season than 2010 was issued in April by Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray, forecasters at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Colorado.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, for its acronym in English), will release its official prediction on Thursday in Maryland. But the director of the NHC said there are still some factors that have led to an active movement in the Atlantic basin as the "tropical MultiDec." Since no record of hurricanes has been noted that there are decades and other busy below normal.
The current period of high hurricane activity began in 1995 and usually lasts 20 to 30 years. This is compounded by the high water temperatures in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. "This generally cause we had more hurricanes than in an average season," said Read.
In an average season are eleven storms and six hurricanes, including two category three or higher on the scale Saffir-Simpson intensity, ranging from 1 to 5. Read, on the other hand, again expressed concern about Haiti and the impact it would have a hurricane in the Caribbean country, still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by an earthquake in 2010. "My biggest concern, like last year, is Haiti. The recovery process is far from complete after the earthquake and the situation of the people who stay in tents in camps is precarious for this season, "said the meteorologist.
Haiti was devastated by a powerful earthquake of 7 degrees on the Richter scale on January 12, 2010, which left some 300,000 dead, the same number of wounded and nearly a million homeless.
Source: www.abc.com.py
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