{"id":8694,"date":"2016-10-23T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:31:49","slug":"interesting-stories-from-hurricane-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/interesting-stories-from-hurricane-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting stories from Hurricane Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Hurricane Matthew is now one for the record books for most people (other than those in eastern North Carolina still dealing with the devastating floods in the region associated with the storm), there have been a lot of interesting stories about the storm. \u00a0Many of these are on scientific aspects of the storm such as forecasting and why the heavy flooding occurred, while others are just items I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/10\/11\/hurricane-matthew-shows-how-forecasting-along-the-edge-of-storms-is-meteorologys-biggest-problem\/?sdfsdfsdfsdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Matthew shows how forecasting along a storm\u2019s edge is meteorology\u2019s biggest problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/10\/10\/how-hurricane-matthew-created-such-a-devastating-deluge-in-the-carolinas\/\">How Hurricane Matthew created such a devastating deluge in the Carolinas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>iWeatherNet<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/tropical\/hurricane-matthew-a-record-setting-tropical-system\">Hurricane Matthew: One of the Atlantic&#8217;s Deadliest since 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-hurricane-matthew-cost-20161012-story.html\">Closed U.S. restaurants, damaged homes: Hurricane Matthew may cost $10 billion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Forbes<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timworstall\/2016\/10\/09\/hurricane-matthew-damages-at-4-to-6-billion-yes-this-will-increase-gdp\/#4f91a2b75926\">Hurricane Matthew Damages at $4 to $6 Billion- Yes, This Will Increase GDP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Daytona Beach News-Journal<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/news\/20161015\/surging-sea-brings-damage-long-term-concerns\">Surging sea brings damage, long-term concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Conversation<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/thousands-of-people-didnt-evacuate-before-hurricane-matthew-why-not-66724\">Thousands of people didn\u2019t evacuate before Hurricane Matthew. Why\u00a0not?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/go-for-launch\/os-hurricane-matthew-path-20161010-story.html\">Hurricane Matthew challenged latest prediction tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, a satellite image from NASA on the plumes of sediment entering the ocean from the flooding rivers in North Carolina at <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=88906&amp;eocn=home&amp;eoci=iotd_readmore\">https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=88906&amp;eocn=home&amp;eoci=iotd_readmore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/matthew_tmo_2016283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8817\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/matthew_tmo_2016283-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Plumes of sediment entering the ocean following flooding from Hurricane Matthew. Source: NASA\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/matthew_tmo_2016283-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/matthew_tmo_2016283-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/matthew_tmo_2016283.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plumes of sediment entering the ocean following flooding from Hurricane Matthew. Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Hurricane Matthew is now one for the record books for most people (other than those in eastern North Carolina still dealing with the devastating floods in the region associated with the storm), there have been a lot of interesting stories about the storm. \u00a0Many of these are on scientific aspects of the storm such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images","category-tropical-weather","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8819,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}