{"id":10002,"date":"2017-02-07T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:56:21","slug":"warm-winter-fuels-deadly-southeast-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/warm-winter-fuels-deadly-southeast-tornadoes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Warm Winter Fuels Deadly Southeast Tornadoes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As severe weather, including devastating tornadoes, moves across the South today (read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/02\/07\/this-monster-tornado-just-rolled-through-new-orleans-major-damage-reported\/?utm_term=.6ce5e0995898\">here<\/a>), it&#8217;s eerily timely that <em>The Seeker<\/em> published a story just yesterday on the increase in tornado outbreaks in the South due to warmer weather. \u00a0This year so far temperatures have been much above normal, leading to two tornado outbreaks in January and now one in February as well. \u00a0You can read the story, which features quotes from Jordan McLeod of the Southeast Regional Climate Center, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/warm-winter-fuels-deadly-southeast-tornadoes-2243358621.html\">https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/warm-winter-fuels-deadly-southeast-tornadoes-2243358621.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/nola-tornado-2-7-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10004\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/nola-tornado-2-7-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As severe weather, including devastating tornadoes, moves across the South today (read more here), it&#8217;s eerily timely that The Seeker published a story just yesterday on the increase in tornado outbreaks in the South due to warmer weather. \u00a0This year so far temperatures have been much above normal, leading to two tornado outbreaks in January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}