I. Title: Tracking Hurricane

II. Problem: How can you predict when and where the hurricane will come ashore?

III. Materials: ruler, different colored pens or pencils, map (Pg. 91)

IV. Procedure:

1.Look at the data in parts A, B, and C so and copy the data in each onto the map in different colored

pens for each.

V. Data:

Part A

Date and Time Latitude Longitude

August 30, 6:00 P.M. 28.3º 86.8º

August 31, Midnight 28.4º 86º

August 31, 6:00 A.M. 28.6º 85.3º

August 31, Noon 28.8º 84.4º

August 31, 6:00 P.M. 28.8º 84º

Part B

Date and Time Latitude Longitude

September 1, Midnight 28.8º 83.8º

September 1, 6:00 A.M. 28.6º 83.9º

September 1, Noon 28.6º 84.2º

September 1, 6:00 P.M. 28.9º 84.8º

Part C

Date and Time Latitude Longitude

September 2, Midnight 29.4 85.9

September 2, 6:00 A.M. 29.7 87.3

September 2, Noon 30.2 88.8

September 2, 6:00 P.M. 31 90.4

Part D:

VI. Analyze and Conclude:

1. The hurricane, at first, went east toward Florida, but, it turned around and went to New Orleans then

went north into Louisiana.

2. I was incorrect. I thought that it would go to Mobile, Alabama, but, it instead went into New

Orleans.

3. It turned around and changed direction.

4. This path can make the warning worthless. Because its path is too unpredictable, it renders all

warnings useless.

5. You must be careful because you do not want people to evacuate unless they have to. This could

cause people to evacuate into where the hurricane will strike and leave the people there without

knowledge of the approaching hurricane. If it was issued to late, people might not have enough time to

evacuate.