McHurricane 5.2.2 review

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McHurricane is a Macintosh hurricane/storm tracking utility, covering the Atlantic Basin and Eastern Pacific including Hawaii, (13 degrees West to 174 degrees West Longitude, and 0 degrees to 48 degrees North Latitude).

License: Shareware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 0K
Developer: A.S. Boyd
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Price: $30.00
Updated: 29 May 2006
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McHurricane is a Macintosh hurricane/storm tracking utility, covering the Atlantic Basin and Eastern Pacific including Hawaii, (13 degrees West to 174 degrees West Longitude, and 0 degrees to 48 degrees North Latitude).

Nine storms of 100 plots each may be open at one time. Storm plots can be added, deleted, or inserted. Track plot list are shown,and a selected plot's data may be individually displayed including distances to four custom user installed city locations.Maps and storm data may be printed, and map areas copied to the Clipboard.

Preferences may be set for the default map, plot symbols, and storm-strength wind circles, 12 or 24 hour clock display and time zone identification,mileage in nautical or statute format, atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury or millibars, storm logs and tracksdisplayed in selectable matching colors, entry of four custom city locations, and various other launch and screen layoutoptions. McHurricane versions 3.x and later are Year 2 (Y2K) compliant.

Here are some key features of "McHurricane":
2 main maps and 5 area maps.
Multiple storms can be opened/viewed at a time.
Storm Plots can be added, deleted, and/or inserted.
Log Window for storm data viewing.
Users can place locations on any of McHurricane's maps.
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7 different time zones.
12 or 24 hour time styles.
statute or nautical speeds and distances.
barometric pressure in inches of mercury or milibars.
Hurricane/Tropical wind force circles.
Color coded storm tracks.

What's New:
Found and fixed a memory leak that has been plaguing McHurricane for awhile.
Do to changes at the National Hurricane Center's website an update to the advisory downloader was needed.
Updated the Advisory import feature do to a couple of small changes in the NHC's advisories.
Added another source for downloading advisories. (NHC's public ftp area).

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