{"id":13239,"date":"2012-08-28T07:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13239"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:17:58","slug":"wtf-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/wtf-isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Isaac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac is still not a hurricane.  It will be one within 24 hours. Right?  Right?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Isaac is big, wet, and windy and long before it makes <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/08\/26\/hurricane-landfall-what-is-it-and-dont-be-stupid-about-it\/\">landfall<\/a> it will start to cause flooding and wind damage ashore, within the next 24 hours or so.  There is a pretty good chance that the storm will be upgraded to hurricane status just before that.  Maybe.  Well, frankly, I no longer trust Isaac so I&#8217;m not making any commitments. I&#8217;m tired of these relationships when the other <del>person<\/del> storm never does what they are expected to do.<\/p>\n<p>Lately the problem has been dry air intruding into the storm, which interferes with the process of getting all round and organized and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The track has been adjusted slightly to the west.  At this point, details matter a great deal.  If the center of the storm shifts far enough to the west, a severe storm surge may be avoided for Lake Pontchartrain.  Yesterday, the predicted track (and this is just an estimate) went right through NOLA, now it goes just to the west.  The big lake is to  the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac is still not a hurricane. It will be one within 24 hours. Right? Right? Either way, Isaac is big, wet, and windy and long before it makes landfall it will start to cause flooding and wind damage ashore, within the next 24 hours or so. There is a pretty good chance that the storm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/wtf-isaac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTF Isaac?<\/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\/p5fhV1-3rx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239"}],"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=13239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}