{"id":10194,"date":"2017-02-25T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2017-02-25T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:29:00","slug":"march-snowstorms-in-alabama-what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/march-snowstorms-in-alabama-what-are-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;March Snowstorms in Alabama &#8211; What are the Odds?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s been so warm, I&#8217;ve been getting questions about the likelihood of seeing more snow before this winter season ends. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had time to do the statistics yet, but I ran across this older <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/bmx\/\/winter_marchsnowstorms\">article<\/a> from the NWS in Birmingham discussing the chances of getting snow in Alabama after a warm February that might be useful. In short, there is no relationship. \u00a0So just because we are having a warm winter, that does not mean the chance of snow (at least for Alabama) is zero. \u00a0(Keep in mind that the article was written in an El Ni\u00f1o year so things could be a little different this year following a weak La Ni\u00f1a.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1932\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Snow_crystals_on_car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1932\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Snow_crystals_on_car-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Snow_crystals_on_car-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Snow_crystals_on_car.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Snow_crystals_on_car-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s been so warm, I&#8217;ve been getting questions about the likelihood of seeing more snow before this winter season ends. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had time to do the statistics yet, but I ran across this older article from the NWS in Birmingham discussing the chances of getting snow in Alabama after a warm February that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10194","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\/10194","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}