{"id":10923,"date":"2017-04-28T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:36:41","slug":"2017-u-s-tornado-season-off-to-a-whirlwind-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/2017-u-s-tornado-season-off-to-a-whirlwind-start\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;2017 U.S. tornado season off to a whirlwind start&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love that title! \u00a0NOAA describes the current active tornado season in their latest blog at Climate.gov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/2017-us-tornado-season-whirlwind-start\">here<\/a>. According to the article, &#8220;as of April 17, 570 tornadoes have been reported (preliminarily), which is almost a hundred more than average. The season jumped out of the gate with an incredibly active January: 134 tornadoes in total\u2014more than triple the <a id=\"anch_50\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.ncdc.noaa.gov\/pub\/data\/cmb\/images\/tornado\/clim\/jan-avg-torn1991-2010.gif\">long-term average<\/a>\u2014and an especially radical departure from the past three years, during which the average number of January tornados was just 16.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10924\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornados_2017todate_620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10924\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornados_2017todate_620-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornados_2017todate_620-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornados_2017todate_620-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornados_2017todate_620.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: NOAA Climate.gov, Patrick Marsh, NOAA Photo Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love that title! \u00a0NOAA describes the current active tornado season in their latest blog at Climate.gov here. According to the article, &#8220;as of April 17, 570 tornadoes have been reported (preliminarily), which is almost a hundred more than average. The season jumped out of the gate with an incredibly active January: 134 tornadoes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923","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=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10925,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions\/10925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}