{"id":13469,"date":"2018-01-15T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:58:18","slug":"only-three-category-5-hurricanes-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/only-three-category-5-hurricanes-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Only three category 5 hurricanes in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While 2017 was a very active year for the Southeast in terms of hurricane impacts, it was actually a year with very few Category 5 storms globally, according to a <em>Weather Underground<\/em> article earlier this year by Dr. Jeff Masters. Two of the three Cat 5 storms were Irma and Maria, both of which affected us here. The last year with so few Cat 5 storms was 2008. You can find the article with some more interesting facts at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/three-category-5-tropical-cyclones-2017\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/three-category-5-tropical-cyclones-2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12356\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6-236x138.jpg 236w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-viirs-sep6.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While 2017 was a very active year for the Southeast in terms of hurricane impacts, it was actually a year with very few Category 5 storms globally, according to a Weather Underground article earlier this year by Dr. Jeff Masters. Two of the three Cat 5 storms were Irma and Maria, both of which affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":12356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","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\/13469","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=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13470,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions\/13470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}