{"id":12456,"date":"2017-09-14T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:35:24","slug":"noaa-issues-la-nina-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/09\/noaa-issues-la-nina-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA issues La Ni\u00f1a watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning NOAA issued a La Ni\u00f1a watch for the equatorial Pacific Ocean, based in part on strong winds towards the west which are increasing a pool of colder than normal water along the equator.\u00a0 This is a change from last month’s forecast, which indicated neutral conditions would be likely over the winter.<\/p>\n

The forecast means that if the La Ni\u00f1a does materialize, winter is likely to be warmer and drier than normal in most of the Southeast.\u00a0 It is especially likely in Florida and south Georgia and Alabama, where the signal is strongest. The impact of the current La Ni\u00f1a-leaning conditions is an increased enhancement of the tropical Atlantic hurricane season through November. It does mean a late frost next spring is a little less likely than we previously thought, which is good for fruit farmers across the Southeast, although we can never rule it out.<\/p>\n

You can read more at https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.shtml<\/a> or the latest NOAA ENSO blog at https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/september-enso-update-la-ni%C3%B1a-watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This morning NOAA issued a La Ni\u00f1a watch for the equatorial Pacific Ocean, based in part on strong winds towards the west which are increasing a pool of colder than normal water along the equator.\u00a0 This is a change from last month’s forecast, which indicated neutral conditions would be likely over the winter. The forecast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","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=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12465,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}