{"id":8165,"date":"2016-08-29T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2016-08-29T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:12:31","slug":"katrina-stories-from-noaa-personnel-new-satellites-will-help-improve-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/katrina-stories-from-noaa-personnel-new-satellites-will-help-improve-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina stories from NOAA personnel; new satellites will help improve prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. \u00a0One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. \u00a0Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. \u00a0Last year they put together a story site which contains information about the storm and tells some of their esperiences. \u00a0Be sure to check them out at <a href=\"https:\/\/service.ncddc.noaa.gov\/cdn\/storymap\/katrina\/\">https:\/\/service.ncddc.noaa.gov\/cdn\/storymap\/katrina\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA also produced a description of some of the tools they use to watch hurricanes develop, including satellites. This article lists some of the new technology that is going into the next generation of satellites: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/service.ncddc.noaa.gov\/cdn\/storymap\/katrina\/\">https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/news_archives\/11_years_after_kartrina.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about NOAA&#8217;s latest satellite, due to be launched soon, at the Capital Weather Gang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/08\/25\/this-new-weather-satellite-is-a-game-changer-if-it-can-survive-the-journey-to-launch\/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8170\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-300x288.png\" alt=\"katrina_hurricane\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-144x138.png 144w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/stennis-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8171\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/stennis-map-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"stennis-map\" width=\"366\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/stennis-map-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/stennis-map-183x138.jpg 183w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/stennis-map.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. \u00a0One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. \u00a0Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. \u00a0Last year they put together a story site which contains information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,6,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tropical-weather","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","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=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}