{"id":1123,"date":"2014-10-21T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:19:16","slug":"will-the-polar-vortex-return-this-winter-forecasters-say-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/will-the-polar-vortex-return-this-winter-forecasters-say-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the &#8220;Polar Vortex&#8221; return this winter?  Forecasters say &#8220;maybe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Future Tense<\/em> blog at <em>Slate.co<\/em>m provided some good commentary on seasonal forecasting in their blog entry from October 17.\u00a0 Winter seasons are the easiest to predict, because they are generally tied to the presence or absence of El Nino in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 This is especially true in the southern portions of the Southeast and in the upper Midwest.\u00a0 However, other patterns are more difficult to predict because they are based on shorter term variability and are highly dependent on what your location is.\u00a0 Weather patterns like snow or ice storms are especially hard to predict because small changes in local weather can affect where or if the frozen precipitation falls.\u00a0 You can read the blog <a title=\"Future Tense blog on seasonal forecasting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/10\/17\/winter_2014_2015_forecast_accuracy_there_may_be_another_polar_vortex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/snow-on-road-wikimedia-spring-street-at-north-ave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/snow-on-road-wikimedia-spring-street-at-north-ave-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"snow on road wikimedia spring street at  north ave\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/snow-on-road-wikimedia-spring-street-at-north-ave-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/snow-on-road-wikimedia-spring-street-at-north-ave-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/snow-on-road-wikimedia-spring-street-at-north-ave.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Future Tense blog at Slate.com provided some good commentary on seasonal forecasting in their blog entry from October 17.\u00a0 Winter seasons are the easiest to predict, because they are generally tied to the presence or absence of El Nino in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 This is especially true in the southern portions of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22951,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/22951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}