NOAA publishes a 3-day projection for the trajectory of the Oil Spill plume and ESRI makes this available for anyone to publish an online map. Hereunder I show this trajectory with local tourism revenue.
Make your own map at http://mapapps.esri.com/disasters/create-map/oil-spill-econ/index.html

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