{"id":13227,"date":"2012-08-27T06:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2012-08-27T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:51:01","slug":"isaac-good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/isaac-good-news-and-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac: Good news and bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news, if you see Hurricanes as bad, is that Isaac did not turn into a hurricane over night and is having trouble getting its act together.  This has caused estimates of the hurricane&#8217;s maximum strength at the time of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/08\/26\/hurricane-landfall-what-is-it-and-dont-be-stupid-about-it\/\">land fall<\/a> to be reduced.  Isaac will be a serious storm when it plows into the southern US coast but it will not be an Ivan, Katrina or Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that the predicted track has moved even farther west, so the forward right quadrant, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/08\/26\/hurricane-landfall-what-is-it-and-dont-be-stupid-about-it\/\">Right Punch<\/a>&#8221; of the hurricane, may very well hit New Orleans at a very bad angle and position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news, if you see Hurricanes as bad, is that Isaac did not turn into a hurricane over night and is having trouble getting its act together. This has caused estimates of the hurricane&#8217;s maximum strength at the time of land fall to be reduced. Isaac will be a serious storm when it plows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/isaac-good-news-and-bad-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isaac: Good news and bad news<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"tags":[1190],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3rl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}