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BAY HONORS FALLEN SERVICE MEMBERS LOCAL | B1 PANAMA CITY Tuesday, May 28, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ NHC feeling winds of change Break in tradition on sprawling paper maps of the precise handwriting of a NHC’s hurricane specialist coming this hurricane the Atlantic basin, feeling forecaster marking the day branch chief, said. “You do season to hand-plotted out storm systems in ways and time the swirly center have the computer and you forecast maps predictions spewed by super- of a potential nightmare was can look at all the data on a The National Hurricane Center computers can’t. located adds a level of human screen, but there is some- still hand plots hurricane By Kimberly Miller Satellite data has no erudition to the wizardry of thing to be said about the tracks such as this one from GateHouse Media wisdom, a keystroke, no modern atmospheric science. human interacting with the Category 5 Hurricane Michael, empathy. And a basic gut check to the data, plotting it and thinking which made landfall near National Hurricane Center But the grainy line of a pencil, weather models. about how it’s changed.” Mexico Beach on Oct. 10, 2018. meteorologists still hand plot the ghostly erasure marks of “There is a connection [NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER] tropical cyclone forecasts slight track miscalculations, there,” Michael Brennan, the See CHANGE, A4 ‘The school has my heart’ LOCAL | B1 FORMER PC SCHOOL NAMED TO ‘11 TO SAVE’ LIST President’s Japan visit illuminates tensions By Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville The Associated Press TOKYO — All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn’t paper over the tensions between President Bethany Lucas hugs a student on Friday at Merritt Brown Middle School. Lucas was named the 2019 Florida School-Related Employee of the Donald Trump and Year. [PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] Japan’s Shinzo Abe on two of their most press- ing issues: North Korea Merritt Brown’s Bethany Lucas donates some of her Florida and trade. The president and School-Related Employee of Year winnings back to district prime minister tried mightily to minimize their differences during By Genevieve Smith Trump’s four-day state @PCNHGenevieve visit to Tokyo, while [email protected] playing up their close personal friendship and PANAMA CITY — When their countries’ long- Hurricane Michael’s 160 held ties. But tension mph winds tore open Mer- abounded, with Trump ritt Brown Middle School, on Monday brushing destroying infrastructure and off the significance of ruining classroom materi- North Korean short- als, autism paraprofessional range missile tests that Bethany Lucas was cata- have rattled Japan and pulted into new reality. reasserting his threats to For children with disabili- hit Abe with potentially ties, change can be particularly devastating auto import strenuous. When Michael left tariffs. Merritt Brown’s campus unus- Asked if he was both- able, the school was forced to ered by the missile tests, relocate to the nearby campus Trump said: “No, I’m of Mosley High School and not. I am personally operate on an adjusted sched- not.” Abe, in contrast, ule after the high schoolers said the missile tests finished for the day. were “of great regret.” See HEART, A4 Bethany Lucas chats with students Friday at Merritt Brown Middle School. 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