{"id":8991,"date":"2012-09-18T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/launch-of-european-satellite-to-further-enhance-weather-and-climate-forecasting\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T19:24:20","slug":"launch-of-european-satellite-to-further-enhance-weather-and-climate-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/world-weather\/launch-of-european-satellite-to-further-enhance-weather-and-climate-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of European satellite to further enhance weather and climate forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) launched its latest polar orbiting satellite yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Metop-B spacecraft carries with it a host of instruments that will help feed models that forecast the weather and climate. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/launch-of-european-satellite-to-further-enhance-weather-and-climate-forecasting\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a>\u00a0and find out what it means for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/video\/metop-b-launch-from-the-baikonur-cosmodrome-kazakhstan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MetOp-B launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: YouTube \/ ESA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/1347994601_2816_2012-09-18_100106.jpg\" alt=\"MetOp-B launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: YouTube \/ ESA\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MetOp-B launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (YouTube \/ ESA) Click the image to watch video of the launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) launched its latest polar orbiting satellite yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Metop-B spacecraft carries with it a host of instruments that will help feed models that forecast the weather and climate. \u00a0Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com\u00a0and find out what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/world-weather\/launch-of-european-satellite-to-further-enhance-weather-and-climate-forecasting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Launch of European satellite to further enhance weather and climate forecasting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,330],"tags":[613,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}