{"id":80648,"date":"2018-07-15T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/scientists-peer-into-heart-of-hurricanes-to-improve-intensity-forecast"},"modified":"2018-07-15T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:02:20","slug":"scientists-peer-into-heart-of-hurricanes-to-improve-intensity-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/scientists-peer-into-heart-of-hurricanes-to-improve-intensity-forecast","title":{"rendered":"Scientists peer into heart of hurricanes to improve intensity forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-peer-into-heart-of-hurricanes-to-improve-intensity-forecast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) \u2014 Despite advances in predicting where hurricanes are heading, forecasters are still struggling to determine a crucial factor in deciding emergency measures and evacuations: their intensity.<\/p>\n<p>With a better way to predict a storm\u2019s power, or intensity, people on the ground will be more prepared in knowing whether a hurricane headed their way will cause devastating floods and winds that can uproot trees like Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico last year, or just shake branches and rattle windows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we have a much better understanding of where these storms are going to go is a great first step. We sort of have half the circle filled in, and we need to get that other half filled in, which is that intensity component,\u201d said Steve Bowen, director and meteorologist for insurer Aon Benfield\u2019s Impact Forecasting team.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-weather-hurricanes-forecasting\/scientists-peer-into-heart-of-hurricanes-to-improve-intensity-forecast-idUSKBN1K50D7\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-weather-hurricanes-fo...SKBN1K50D7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) \u2014 Despite advances in predicting where hurricanes are heading, forecasters are still struggling to determine a crucial factor in deciding emergency measures and evacuations: their intensity. With a better way to predict a storm\u2019s power, or intensity, people on the ground will be more prepared in knowing whether a hurricane headed their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}