Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.

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The software company hopes to prove that its data collection and analysis technology so that it could win a long-term contract with the water district and perhaps other utilities as well.

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