{"id":2048,"date":"2017-12-02T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:10:25","slug":"storm-prediction-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2017\/12\/02\/storm-prediction-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Prediction Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) National Weather Service&#8217;s (NWS)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storm Prediction Center<\/a>\u00a0contains numerous maps of the United States that show if any severe weather is present or if there will be any in the future.\u00a0 Their &#8220;Forecast Products&#8221; include Current Convective Watches and Outlooks, which show the potential for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms from today to eight days away; Current Mesoscale Discussions, which show all current severe weather; Fire Weather Outlooks, which show the potential for wildfires today and up to eight days away; and the Watch, Warning, and Advisory Display (WWA) which shows all types of WWAs.\u00a0 All of these maps are easy to understand and allow the user to easily see which type of hazardous weather is in their area.\u00a0 The user can also read a detailed statement released by the NWS that explains what could happen.<\/p>\n<p>It is pretty impressive that the NWS can predict severe weather up to eight days in advance.\u00a0 People can use this site to see if any storms are heading their way and how bad they will be.\u00a0 However, the thing about weather is that it is always changing and the NWS constantly needs to update their maps and descriptions.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2017\/12\/NWS-WWA-12-2-17-119pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2049\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2017\/12\/NWS-WWA-12-2-17-119pm-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NWS Watch, Warning Advisory Display 12\/02\/17 1:16pm EST<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) National Weather Service&#8217;s (NWS)\u00a0Storm Prediction Center\u00a0contains numerous maps of the United States that show if any severe weather is present or if there will be any in the future.\u00a0 Their &#8220;Forecast Products&#8221; include Current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2017\/12\/02\/storm-prediction-center\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,59091,1342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-fall-2017","category-tools-of-the-geographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}