{"id":10176,"date":"2017-02-24T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2017-02-24T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:56:24","slug":"how-a-deadly-heat-wave-led-to-disastrous-floods-2000-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/how-a-deadly-heat-wave-led-to-disastrous-floods-2000-miles-away\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How A Deadly Heat Wave Led To Disastrous Floods 2,000 Miles Away&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really interesting story about how extreme weather patterns in one area can lead to a catastrophe far away. \u00a0We are linked together by the ocean of air that flows around the planet, and what happens in one place can affect things far away. \u00a0Here in the Southeast we see this with El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a, which divert the winds that steer our weather around like placing a rock into a river, and other teleconnections can be seen both with the ENSO oscillation and with other large-scale weather patterns. \u00a0This is why climatologists look closely at what is happening in the Arctic, for example, because the weather that is happening there is often linked to what is happening in the mid-latitudes. \u00a0You can read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-a-deadly-heat-wave-led-to-disastrous-floods-2000-miles-away\/\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-a-deadly-heat-wave-led-to-disastrous-floods-2000-miles-away\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10177\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02-768x305.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/538-flood-infographic-02-347x138.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really interesting story about how extreme weather patterns in one area can lead to a catastrophe far away. \u00a0We are linked together by the ocean of air that flows around the planet, and what happens in one place can affect things far away. \u00a0Here in the Southeast we see this with El Ni\u00f1o [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176","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=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}