{"id":27725,"date":"2024-07-29T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27725"},"modified":"2024-07-29T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:38:31","slug":"casting-a-wider-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/07\/casting-a-wider-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting A Wider Net"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am really excited to see that the University of South Alabama weather network has received a major grant to expand their network. They will be able to add some new personnel including a network manager, IT specialist, and technician. This is a fantastic addition to the network of networks we have across the Southeast  and I am looking forward to collaborating with them across the river. I hope that those of you in South Alabama will be able to profit from this expanded network in the coming few years. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southalabama.edu\/departments\/publicrelations\/pressreleases\/072924mesonetfunding.html\">https:\/\/www.southalabama.edu\/departments\/publicrelations\/pressreleases\/072924mesonetfunding.html<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/07\/kimball-usa-expanded-mesonet-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/07\/kimball-usa-expanded-mesonet-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27726\" style=\"width:499px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/07\/kimball-usa-expanded-mesonet-2024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/07\/kimball-usa-expanded-mesonet-2024-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/07\/kimball-usa-expanded-mesonet-2024-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>University of South Alabama Professor of Meteorology Dr. Sytske Kimball, shown at one of 26 weather stations in the South Alabama Mesonet she created. The University recently received $3 million in federal funding to add 20 more stations, expanding the network across a third of the state, to enhance weather monitoring and warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really excited to see that the University of South Alabama weather network has received a major grant to expand their network. They will be able to add some new personnel including a network manager, IT specialist, and technician. This is a fantastic addition to the network of networks we have across the Southeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725","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=27725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27728,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions\/27728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}