{"id":583,"date":"2014-08-17T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=583"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:34","slug":"tracking-tropical-storms-using-the-national-hurricane-center-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/tracking-tropical-storms-using-the-national-hurricane-center-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking tropical storms using the National Hurricane Center web site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we are approaching the most active time of the tropical season, you might like to track tropical activity for yourself. \u00a0The New Orleans Times-Picayune has a great primer on how to use the National Hurricane Center web site to look at tropical outlooks and storm forecasts. \u00a0Check it out by clicking <a title=\"Tracking tropical storms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/hurricane\/index.ssf\/2014\/08\/keeping_tabs_on_tropical_weath.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Phys.org recently published an article showing that land-falling tropical storms and other environmental disasters have economic impacts that last far longer than the 1-2 years many people believe. \u00a0Areas affected by Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005) are still being felt decades later. \u00a0On average, a storm that occurs once every ten years can reduce income by 7.4 percent two decades later, according to the study. \u00a0You can read a story about the study by clicking <a title=\"Global losses from cyclones\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-08-global-economic-losses-cyclones-linger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we are approaching the most active time of the tropical season, you might like to track tropical activity for yourself. \u00a0The New Orleans Times-Picayune has a great primer on how to use the National Hurricane Center web site to look at tropical outlooks and storm forecasts. \u00a0Check it out by clicking here. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22721,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/22721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}