{"id":213,"date":"2005-09-22T01:37:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/09\/22\/gfdl-places-rita-directly-over-central"},"modified":"2005-09-22T01:37:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T05:37:55","slug":"gfdl-places-rita-directly-over-central-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/09\/22\/gfdl-places-rita-directly-over-central-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"GFDL places Rita directly over central Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Hurricane Rita<\/span><\/a> is apporaching the Gulf Coast, and will hit land somewhere between Texas’s Corpus Christi<\/span> and New Orleans<\/span>. 
\nGalveston, one of the country’s largest ports (New Orleans was the
\nlargest), is the most vulnerable target, despite its protections
\nagainst normal storms.  Parts of Houston are also at risk, and the
\nearly evacuation of Houston has lead to much of the clogging of roads
\nin southeast Texas.<\/p>\n

The GFDL (an acronym for “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory<\/span>“),
\nis one of the key modern hurricane path-predicting models.  It is
\na “limited-area baroclinic” model developed specifically for hurricane
\nprediction, including convective, radiative
\nand boundary layer parameterizations.  It makes special allowance
\nfor
\ninitializing the storm circulation. <\/p>\n

GFDL is a ‘late<\/span>‘ model, meaning that it is run with hard data, and not
\nwith interpolations from earlier data… as of 10pm last night, the GFDL<\/a> had Rita passing through central Houston<\/span> and veering west once it comes level with Fort Worth<\/span>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/span>: Rita is veering East a bit, pushing it more directly towards Galveston <\/span>and moving its water-heavy easterly side away from Houston.\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

GFDL places Rita directly over central Houston …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Rita is apporaching the Gulf Coast, and will hit land somewhere between Texas’s Corpus Christi and New Orleans.  Galveston, one of the country’s largest ports (New Orleans was the largest), is the most vulnerable target, despite its protections against normal storms.  Parts of Houston are also at risk, and the early evacuation of Houston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-3r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}