UPDATED: 3:00 pm EDT, May 21, 2012 by Mark Sudduth Email Me HEADING TO TEXAS TO TEST HURR-B BUT FIRST, A STOP IN MISSISSIPPI FOR TEST OF HURRICANE CAM AT NOAA PLATFORM
This week marks an important milestone for our field work as we embark on a journey to launch a weather balloon with four GoPro HD cameras attached in preparation for doing that within the eye of a hurricane. Along the way, we'll also test our remote cam in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi as part of NOAA's Sentinels of the Coast program. The entire week-long trip to Texas from North Carolina will be streamed live on our Ustream channel and on our ad-free Client Services site (not a member? Now is an excellent time to sign up for our season pass).
I'll be joined by meteorologist Greg Nordstrom from Mississippi State University who will assist on many aspects of this trip. Greg and I will meet in Atlanta later tonight and then have some media stops in Atlanta tomorrow before heading to the Mississippi coast on Wednesday. Then, we'll spend Thursday putting the final touches on the HURR-B payload for our launch sometime on Friday. We hope you can join us Thursday evenin in Baytown, TX at the Outback there for a great evening of meeting old friends and hopefully making some new ones. I'll post more about this on Weds but plan on 7pm at the Outback in Baytown.
Greg and I both will post updates on our Twitter and Facebook pages. Follow the progress of HURR-B on Twitter by searching for #HURR-B. This will be an interesting test of the entire project and if all goes well, we will have some excellent data and experience as we then wait for the opportunity to launch within the eye of a landfalling hurricane. Will it be this season? Only one way to find out.... I'll post another update tomorrow.
