Situation
One of the greatest challenges to meteorologists (scientists who study weather patterns) is tracking and predicting the course of large storms with heavy, damaging winds. Your weather team has been asked to track and predict landfall of the next hurricane to threaten the United States. In preparation, your team should:

• study the action of Hurricane Andrew (1992) in preparation for analyzing, tracking, and predicting the speed and course of the next hurricane that may hit the United States this school year;
• make a list of what your team knows and will need to know about hurricanes to make predictions about them;
• check radio, television, and newspapers for reports of the next hurricane to threaten the United States;
• using a series of remote-sensing images from the NOAA weather satellites,

1. determine the forward speed of a current hurricane,
2. track its course, and
3. predict where and when it will come ashore.
   

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