{"id":140,"date":"2008-09-05T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/sometimes-technology-is-useful-hurricane-tracking\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:43:59","slug":"sometimes-technology-is-useful-hurricane-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/sometimes-technology-is-useful-hurricane-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes technology is useful &#8211; Hurricane Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">facebook<\/a> turned me on to MSNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26295161\/\">Hurricane Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Hurricane Center<\/a> and various other sites to get a view of what storms were in the Atlantic and where they were projected to go. I can say categorically that the MSNBC site is the most useful. That is due in large part to the fact that it is utterly simple and tells me exactly what I want to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What storms are out there<\/li>\n<li>Where are they projected to go<\/li>\n<li>How strong are they now and will they be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it really, really accurate? No. But I don&#8217;t need it to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&#8230; if you are listening &#8211; grant NOAA (which is where you get the underlying data that drives this tool anyway) a perpetual license to use for this and let them put it on the National Hurricane Center landing page.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on facebook turned me on to MSNBC&#8217;s Hurricane Tracker. I&#8217;ve been visiting the National Hurricane Center and various other sites to get a view of what storms were in the Atlantic and where they were projected to go. I can say categorically that the MSNBC site is the most useful. That is due&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/sometimes-technology-is-useful-hurricane-tracking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes technology is useful &#8211; Hurricane Tracking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}