Additional resources for journalists looking for hurricane and tropical storm information are available on the Web.
The University of Central Florida offers an interactive mapping application at http://hurricane.methaz.org that allows users to plot the results of different hurricane forecast models on one map. This allows journalists to get an idea about the uncertainty of the storm track.
The tropical weather tracking page from the U.S. Navy (www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?tropical) contains downloadable shapefiles of forecast tracks that can be used in a GIS program and basic wind models.