Here's Your Hurricane Season Update for September 1957

Fifty-five years ago hurricane forecasting was a distinctly low-tech affair. Although radar and hurricane hunter aircraft were in use, they're not in evidence in this WTVJ-Miami story shot at the U. S. Weather Bureau, located in the Lindsey Hopkins building in Miami. The main tools seen in this story are pen and paper.
Forecaster Leonard Pardu talks viewers through the season as of mid-September, helpfully indicating the positions of storms and disturbances on a tracking map. At the time of the story two hurricanes were active. Carrie was first spotted off the Cabo Verde Islands on September second and didn't fully dissipate until more than three weeks later off the southwest coast of England. Seldom a threat to land, Carrie did cause a German ship to capsize in the Atlantic, killing eighty crew members.
Esther formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Louisiana, indirectly causing three deaths. When this story aired Frieda, the third and final hurricane of the season, was still over the horizon.
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This clip is derived from news film in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number TVN0351-1312-08; airdate September 17, 1957.