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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?
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2 .Scientists already have lots of tools to track hurricanes: radar, satellite images, "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft.
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3 .But now there's a new one: the photo-sharing site Flickr.
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4 .Researchers searched Flickr for photos taken in October and November 2012 whose tags, titles or descriptions included "Hurricane Sandy," "Sandy," or "hurricane."
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5 .They plotted when each photo was taken, and compared that to a graph of atmospheric pressure in New Jersey in the same period.
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6 .Turns out, the number of Sandy photos spiked at 8pm Eastern time on October 29th,
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7 .exactly when atmospheric pressure plummeted, and Sandy made landfall.
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8 .That analysis appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
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9 .Of course, it may seem obvious that as winds picked up and Sandy hit the coast, there were more downed trees and property damage to photograph.
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10 .But media hype could have also pushed more people to pay attention and take photos during the storm's peak.
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11 .Either way, researchers say crowd-sourced storm data might give governments, insurance companies, and emergency responders a way to gauge a storm's progress and impact, in a way that weather data might not reveal.
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12 .Assuming internet and cell service is up and running, of course.
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13 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
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