{"id":10673,"date":"2017-04-06T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:43:00","slug":"a-below-average-2017-atlantic-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/a-below-average-2017-atlantic-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Below-Average 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season for 2017 is now out. \u00a0Colorado State University issued their forecast today and it shows that they are expecting a slightly below normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean basin. \u00a0This is due to the current neutral ENSO conditions, which are expected to transition into an El Ni\u00f1o later this summer. \u00a0When we have El Ni\u00f1o conditions, the strong subtropical jet stream aloft tends to &#8220;blow the top off&#8221; of developing tropical waves, keeping them from reaching tropical storm strength. \u00a0One factor which works against it is the unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, which would serve as a source of energy for the storms. \u00a0This could mean an early start to the season with more Gulf storms and a decline later in the season as El Ni\u00f1o becomes more of a factor. \u00a0You can read about their forecast technique at Weather Underground <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/csu-and-tsr-project-below-average-2017-atlantic-hurricane-season?__prclt=6hOB7FtU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8170\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-300x288.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane-144x138.png 144w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/katrina_hurricane.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season for 2017 is now out. \u00a0Colorado State University issued their forecast today and it shows that they are expecting a slightly below normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean basin. \u00a0This is due to the current neutral ENSO conditions, which are expected to transition into an El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","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=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}