{"id":1367,"date":"2014-11-20T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:18:15","slug":"noaa-releases-new-winter-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/11\/noaa-releases-new-winter-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA releases new winter outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their latest outlook for December and for December through January today. \u00a0The new forecasts are not a big change from previous forecasts, and the 3-month winter forecast is still leaning towards the development of a weak El Nino, with wetter than normal conditions expected in the southern part of the Southeast along the coast. \u00a0The NOAA predictions for an El Nino were reduced to 55 percent a few weeks ago, but the Australian Bureau of Meteorology just upped theirs to 70 percent chance, so there is still some hope that one will develop. \u00a0This would improve soil moisture in south Alabama and Georgia where it is certainly needed. \u00a0It is also interesting to note that the December forecasts are for equal chances of above, below, and near normal temperatures, indicating that NOAA doesn&#8217;t think that the unusually cold air will necessarily continue in the next month. \u00a0And there are a number of years in which a cold fall was followed by a warm winter, so if you like warm weather, all hope is not lost. \u00a0I&#8217;ve put the DJF forecasts below; you can find the December forecasts at <a title=\"CPC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.noaa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cpc.noaa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1368\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610-300x300.png\" alt=\"Source: NOAA with pie charts from IL State Climatologist\" width=\"313\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_temp_outlooks_with_pies_610.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 Source: NOAA with pie charts from IL State Climatologist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1369\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610-300x300.png\" alt=\"decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610\" width=\"323\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/decjanfeb_precip_outlooks_with_pies_610.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their latest outlook for December and for December through January today. \u00a0The new forecasts are not a big change from previous forecasts, and the 3-month winter forecast is still leaning towards the development of a weak El Nino, with wetter than normal conditions expected in the southern part of the Southeast along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","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=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}