{"id":12843,"date":"2017-10-20T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:44:27","slug":"using-trends-to-make-seasonal-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/using-trends-to-make-seasonal-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Using trends to make seasonal forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted the latest seasonal outlook for winter for the US.\u00a0 One of the things it showed was the likely impact of the developing La Ni\u00f1a on this coming winter.\u00a0 But the Climate Prediction Center uses other things as well to make their predictions.\u00a0 Here at <em>Climate.gov<\/em> Tom DiLiberto discusses how trends are used in the predictions and why 15-year trends are the preferred length of time to use. You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/another-non-enso-thing-affects-seasonal-forecasts\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/another-non-enso-thing-affects-seasonal-forecasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/trends-in-winter-temperature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12844\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/trends-in-winter-temperature-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/trends-in-winter-temperature-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/trends-in-winter-temperature-178x138.png 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/trends-in-winter-temperature.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted the latest seasonal outlook for winter for the US.\u00a0 One of the things it showed was the likely impact of the developing La Ni\u00f1a on this coming winter.\u00a0 But the Climate Prediction Center uses other things as well to make their predictions.\u00a0 Here at Climate.gov Tom DiLiberto discusses how trends are used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843","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=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}