{"id":17083,"date":"2011-08-28T18:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17083"},"modified":"2011-08-28T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T01:40:28","slug":"our-strange-sky-nasas-birds-eye-view-of-hurricane-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/our-strange-sky-nasas-birds-eye-view-of-hurricane-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: NASA&#8217;s Bird&#8217;s Eye View of Hurricane Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had our eyes to the skies even though our blog has been silent. Here we have <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/photos\/Astro_Ron\" class=\"external external_icon\">@Astro_Ron<\/a>&#8216;s tweeted photo of Irene from the ISS. Below the jump, NASA video of Irene from space and a <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/28\/live-blog-hurricane-irene-approaches-new-york-city\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">live blog of her passing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>@Astro_Ron Views Irene on August 27, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/6c0yuc\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/382997604-e1314575056858.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Astron Ron sees all.\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17085\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Video of Irene From Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seen here at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NiejvDFB5dI?t=2m51s\" class=\"external external_icon\">time marker 2:51<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NiejvDFB5dI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Live Blog of Irene<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Yorkers awoke Sunday morning to torrential rains, heavy winds and fears that Hurricane Irene would carve a path of destruction through the city.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/28\/live-blog-hurricane-irene-approaches-new-york-city\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">by the afternoon the worst was over<\/a>, and even the worst was not as bad as had been predicted. Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm, and while some parts of the city were flooded, the storm surge was far less intense than it was expected to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/6c0yuc\" class=\"external external_icon\">@astro_ron<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hurricanes\/archives\/2011\/h2011_Irene.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">NASA&#8217;s Hurricane season 2011<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110827.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">APOD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12760-hurricane-irene-landfall-satellite-photo-east-coast.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">space.com &#8220;Hurricane Landfall Photo&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had our eyes to the skies even though our blog has been silent. Here we have @Astro_Ron&#8216;s tweeted photo of Irene from the ISS. Below the jump, NASA video of Irene from space and a live blog of her passing. @Astro_Ron Views Irene on August 27, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,9,81,7],"tags":[3214,4547,1636,4542,959,355,1637,1570,2309,4927],"class_list":["post-17083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-science","category-space","category-video","tag-from-space","tag-astronaut-photography","tag-hows-the-weather","tag-hurricane-irene","tag-mother-nature-endures","tag-nasa","tag-our-strange-sky","tag-rain","tag-stormy-weather","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17108,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions\/17108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}