Hurricane History Storm Plot

 

 

 

While viewing storm plots on a tracking chart, there are several menu options available. They include:

 

Close Window - Closes this window.

 

DISPLAY:

Display Locations - Displays all of the locations for the selected location group.  

Display Counties - Displays the county lines for the US Eastern and Gulf states 

Display Roadways - Displays the significant roadways for the US East and Gulf coastal states. This may take several seconds. 

Display Latitude/ Longitude values - Displays latitude and longitude labels along the sides and top of the tracking chart. 

Display Chart Notes - Displays storm observation information next to the observation points. If the points are close together, some chart notes will not plot to prevent overwriting.  

Display Track Color Legend – Displays the color-coded storm track legend.

 

Stretch - Displays the tracking chart in "full screen" mode. No operations can be done while in this mode as it is only for viewing. Clicking the mouse button will return you from stretch mode.

 

Annotate Chart - Allows the user to add his/her notes to the tracking chart being displayed. After selecting this option, you select the point you wish to add comments by pressing the right mouse button on the screen and then entering the text desired. When done, click on "end annotate" on the menu bar.

 

Print/Export:

Print Setup – Allows the user to define which printer settings they would like to use.

Color - Prints the current image in color. If you have a B/W printer, your print driver will convert the colors to gray scale.

Grayscale - Prints the current image in gray scale regardless of your printer type.

Export image to Google Earth – exports Image to Google Earth.

Export Google Earth KML – Exports all of the displayed tracks to Google Earth using KML. 

 

Save Image:

Copy to Clipboard - Copies the current image to the windows clipboard for pasting into most graphics applications. 

Save to File - Saves the current image to a BMP, PCX, TIF or JPG file. Most all windows graphics and word processing applications accept BMP files. 

Save fax image to File - Saves the current image to a BMP, PCX, TIF, or JPG file after automatically modifying the image to "line art". All colors are changed to black, while the Ocean and Land areas are set to white.

 

Help - Displays this help screen.