{"id":10168,"date":"2017-02-23T22:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2017-02-23T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T04:11:10","slug":"the-u-s-is-poised-to-set-a-record-setting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/the-u-s-is-poised-to-set-a-record-setting-record\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The U.S. is Poised to Set a Record-Setting Record&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed that temperatures this February are unusually warm, you&#8217;re not alone. \u00a0Many parts of the US are well above normal in temperature, with many stations this week setting new daily record high temperatures. \u00a0Some areas are 20 or more degrees above normal for this time of year, and an unofficial station in Texas reported 107 F today, which would be an all-time record for the US for February if verified. \u00a0The result of all this warmth: a record-setting number of records for maximum temperature. <em>Climate Central<\/em> produced the graph below which compares the jaw-dropping number of record highs set this month so far (3146) to record lows (27). \u00a0You can read more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/record-high-temperature-february-21186\">https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/record-high-temperature-february-21186<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mashable.com<\/em> has more information on all of the heat records that are being set at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/02\/23\/february-heat-records\/#tUCOxfHkT5qg\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/02\/23\/february-heat-records\/#tUCOxfHkT5qg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/2_23_17_Brian_RecordHighsvsLowsToDateFeb2017_720_553_s_c1_c_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10169\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/2_23_17_Brian_RecordHighsvsLowsToDateFeb2017_720_553_s_c1_c_c-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/2_23_17_Brian_RecordHighsvsLowsToDateFeb2017_720_553_s_c1_c_c-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/2_23_17_Brian_RecordHighsvsLowsToDateFeb2017_720_553_s_c1_c_c-180x138.jpg 180w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/2_23_17_Brian_RecordHighsvsLowsToDateFeb2017_720_553_s_c1_c_c.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed that temperatures this February are unusually warm, you&#8217;re not alone. \u00a0Many parts of the US are well above normal in temperature, with many stations this week setting new daily record high temperatures. \u00a0Some areas are 20 or more degrees above normal for this time of year, and an unofficial station in Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","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=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10172,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions\/10172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}