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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?

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Scientists already have lots of tools to track hurricanes: radar, satellite images, "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft.

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But now there's a new one: the photo-sharing site Flickr.

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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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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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Turns out, the number of Sandy photos spiked at 8pm Eastern time on October 29th,

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exactly when atmospheric pressure plummeted, and Sandy made landfall.

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That analysis appears in the journal Scientific Reports.

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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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But media hype could have also pushed more people to pay attention and take photos during the storm's peak.

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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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Assuming internet and cell service is up and running, of course.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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