Hurricane Track - NOAA Doppler App Reviews

very primitive interface- only real quality items are the radar images engine and the automatic location and download of NOAA maps. If you have an ipad or iphone get the storm app instead. authors of this program shoudl take a look at storm and maybe get some ideas how to make it better. $2 ok, $8 not worth it.

I was skeptical when I purchased this and was presently surprised. I’ve used a number of Hurrican Tracking programs over the years living in Florida and this is pretty good. It’s a nice simple interface that provides a lot of information all put together niceley and is somewhat customizable. It looks like like the development team is on the right track with this version and I am sure it will only get better with future release.

Used to be excellent. Now - greatly reduced physical size of images, most of app says no data available and becomes unresponsive when attempting to toggle switches. Definitely do not wast time or money.

The app constantly locks up as it tries to download information that it needs to operate properly. I get an app non-responsive message and need to force quit the app.

For the casual hurricane tracker this app is ok. It is just a compendium of feeds and maps from NHC. It is nice to have all of this info in one place. this app is similar to the one by the same developer for iOS. Nevertheless, seasoned trackers will be dissapointed as it does not include custom tracks and historical tracks like older (and now discontinued and unsupported apps). What we need is a new app with the functionality of "MacHurricane" and "Eye of the Storm".

First of all, the "radars" are actually satellites. This app lacks so much. It just puts some maps and outlooks all in one place, which is nice, but would be nicer if they werent so small and streched with no option to view them full size. For $4.99, I would like to be able to see all of the maps and graphics that are available from the NHC. The NHC website is more useful than this app.

Tracking Hurricane Irene today and bought this app since it was about our only choice for the Mac OS X platform at the app store. It is not up to par—in fact, a triple bogey … very poor user experience. OK, Im a professional meteorologist with over 35 years experience, so I am likely more critical. Using MacBook Pro with Lion. Many of the text messages show as available, but fail to load. Satellite views are fixed basin perspective and not available for zooming in on the storm. Menubar is labeled as RADAR, but shows SATELLITE views. No radar views available. No computer model plots available. In fact, even the warning plots are not that good. This is not much more than a poor staging of National Hurricane Center web products. SAVE YOUR MONEY. Just go to the National Hurricane Center web page instead. The best tool for more professional exploration of hurricane decision data is Hurr Track available on the iPad.

very poor quality product. It doesnt do much and is very slow to load, as is each feature. Some things dont seem to work at all.

I think this is a pretty good program. It does far more than I would have expected, and does it well. It certainly answers the questions folks need who are in the path. Thanks for good work. A professional will have more available than this, but I dont need more.