{"id":15294,"date":"2018-08-11T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2018-08-11T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:13:03","slug":"new-weather-model-could-provide-significant-improvement-to-long-range-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/new-weather-model-could-provide-significant-improvement-to-long-range-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"New weather model could provide significant improvement to long-range forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Time<\/em> magazine has a really interesting long-form story this week about a new weather model that is being developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton NJ which could significantly improve weather forecasting on the time period of a week or more. Having better long-range predictions could help people who have weather-sensitive industries plan better for work or other activities. It could also help emergency managers prepare when hurricanes or other extreme weather occurs with less likelihood of a false alarm. It starts with a discussion of the potential impacts of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015 as it approached the coast of South Carolina. You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/longform\/better-storm-prediction\/?utm_source=time.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the-brief-special-hurricane-predictions&amp;utm_content=2018081112pm&amp;eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%225j6m3RmdUk%2fN9NsZvkgrfA%3d%3d%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_TBS_4B74DE20-6F88-408F-8F8C-2671101C7C84%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%22105135120%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22849369%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF_SPECIAL_EDITION%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%2230605%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1280\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-209x138.png 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine has a really interesting long-form story this week about a new weather model that is being developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton NJ which could significantly improve weather forecasting on the time period of a week or more. Having better long-range predictions could help people who have weather-sensitive industries plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}