By Walt Hickey Model The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced an upgrade to their hurricane forecasting model, which will for the first time use data from the upper atmosphere, plus some beefed up software upgrades on the supercomputers that run the hurricane forecast in Florida and Virginia. The end result is pretty great, and found a 10 to 15 percent improvement in predicting tropical cyclone track and intensity. The upshot is that the model should add