Online info

You no longer have to wait for TV or radio updates to follow the progress of a tropical weather system.

An abundance of information about hurricanes and their development can be found on the Internet.

One of the best places to start is the hurricane Web page on enctoday. com, a regional web site that features news about communities in Eastern North Carolina.

ENC Today’s hurricane page has important local information as well as links to numerous other sites with hurricane information. Those sites can give area residents direct connections to some of the most up-to-date information that is available.

Plus, the ENC Today site offers a special feature that is both entertaining and informational.

Last year the site introduced an innovative service that provides real-time tracking of an active hurricane.

Once a hurricane is given a name by the National Weather Service, it will automatically link to the hurricane chart and appear on the front page of enctoday.com.

The Web page displays a chart with the hurricane’s path, coordinates, wind speed, strength and barometric pressure. And all that occurs within minutes of the data becoming available.

In addition to information about current storms, a hurricane archives section provides hurricane information dating back to 1952. So users can compare the potential paths of developing storms with some of those that have hit the North Carolina coast before.

You can logon to www.enctoday.com to access the hurricane tracker