Tara_Hastings Beyond the Forecast

I've been working on a project behind the scenes for several months now and I'm so excited to say it's finished!!  I've created a DVD for the Door County Maritime Museums newest exhibit called Freshwater Fury.  It's all about a big storm that hit the Great Lakes in November of 1913.  This storm lasted for five days, went through several stages and caught everyone traveling the Great Lakes off guard.  I spent months looking at old weather maps and I even plotted all of the surface data, temperature, wind, pressure etc.  A tedious task but it needed to be done and helped out in the end.  The seven minute presentation explains what it was like to forecast back in 1913 and the storms different stages.  It includes the entire weather team, maps of where the storm was and pictures of the aftermath. 
This presentation is only one part of the exhibit.  You'll be able to walk on a "listing" or leaning ship, send a distress call, and look at some actual artifacts recovered from some of the wrecks.  The exhibit opens on Saturday and runs through mid January 2009.  Check it out!
Click here to see the presentation.

Tara