{"id":200,"date":"2023-02-23T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/?p=200"},"modified":"2023-02-23T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:57:11","slug":"media-freakout-about-cold-weather-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/02\/23\/media-freakout-about-cold-weather-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Media freakout about cold weather in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While we were in class today, the official Twitter account for the National Weather Service Los Angeles (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSLosAngeles\">@NWSLosAngeles<\/a>) posted a &#8220;blizzard warning&#8221; cautioning folks about &#8220;extremely dangerous mountain conditions&#8221; in the mountains of Southern California. Apparently the first blizzard warning ever for this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Los-Angeles-blizzard-warning.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Los-Angeles-blizzard-warning.png 592w, https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Los-Angeles-blizzard-warning-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally the local news was having a field day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Did it really snow at the Hollywood Sign?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_NMkSNl89A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All joking aside, it makes me think about some discussions we&#8217;ve had in class, like how to prepare for the unprecedented. Fortunately this event does not seem to have been very dangerous (<em>yet! fingers crossed<\/em>) but had a more serious situation unfolded, the fact that such weather patterns are rarely experience here seems to indicate there probably are not a lot of systems in place to prepare for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a bit more context on the conditions from The Los Angeles Times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayley Smith, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-02-23\/la-me-snow-storms-california-unusual-science-explainer\">&#8220;Rare weather conditions are fueling California\u2019s \u2018major and unusual\u2019 snow, blizzard warning&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, February 23, 2023, 10:30am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were in class today, the official Twitter account for the National Weather Service Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) posted a &#8220;blizzard warning&#8221; cautioning folks about &#8220;extremely dangerous mountain conditions&#8221; in the mountains of Southern California. Apparently the first blizzard warning ever for this area. Naturally the local news was having a field day. All joking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}