{"id":25102,"date":"2022-12-15T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25102"},"modified":"2022-12-15T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:41:31","slug":"uga-touts-new-weather-radar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/12\/uga-touts-new-weather-radar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA touts new weather radar system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are very excited in the UGA Atmospheric Sciences program to have access to a brand-new radar system that we have purchased jointly with Georgia Tech. It will fill in an area of northeast Georgia that is not well-covered by current National Weather Services radars and will also serve as a teaching tool for our students in meteorology. They will be able to monitor rainfall and potential severe weather in real-time and learn about how to present the information to the public. You can read more about the radar at <em>WGAU<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgauradio.com\/news\/local\/uga-touts-new-weather-radar-system\/UY6Q2Y2VOZDOLGM2BRI5I3RHBA\/?utm_email=781cec2473ada5cf1aa8b3b596fd91cc0408cf51&amp;utm_source=WGAU-AM\/FM&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=180541\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-1024x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-284x138.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tropical rainfall may increase more than previously thought as the climate warms. Credit: teresaaaa, CC BY-ND 2.0.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited in the UGA Atmospheric Sciences program to have access to a brand-new radar system that we have purchased jointly with Georgia Tech. It will fill in an area of northeast Georgia that is not well-covered by current National Weather Services radars and will also serve as a teaching tool for our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102","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=25102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25106,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102\/revisions\/25106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}