Google has just added a new sub-layer to the “weather” layer titled “Gustav Data”. This layer includes a variety of information about the storm, such as the latest advisories, webcams from around Louisiana and a forecast track. Coupled with the existing weather layers (clouds, radar, etc), it makes for some useful information.
As Google points out, the “clouds” layer is about 1-3 hours behind, but the “radar” layer is only about 15-30 minutes behind.
In the screenshot above, I’ve turned on the impressive-looking radar layer and pulled up a traffic camera (those are some empty roads…). In addition, you can see the forecast track of the storm with the red line heading off to the northwest.
It seems to me that a general “hurricanes” layer might have been better (will we get one for “Hanna”, then one for “Ike”, etc?), but they can always just add/remove them as necessary, I suppose.
