{"id":14362,"date":"2018-05-01T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2018-05-01T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:59:37","slug":"changes-to-nws-hurricane-forecasts-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/05\/changes-to-nws-hurricane-forecasts-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to NWS hurricane forecasts this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and we may see an early start to it this year because the Gulf of Mexico is warmer than usual, providing good energy for storm formation. The NWS National Hurricane Center has announced some changes to their hurricane forecasts for this upcoming season, including the shrinking of the &#8220;cone of uncertainty&#8221; and better discussions of the forecasts. You can read more at <em>Forbes.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dennismersereau\/2018\/04\/30\/the-national-hurricane-center-will-make-important-changes-to-their-forecasts-in-2018\/#35c2564f4d67\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4054\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/hurricane-cone-changes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4054\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/hurricane-cone-changes-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/hurricane-cone-changes-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/hurricane-cone-changes-167x138.png 167w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/hurricane-cone-changes.png 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Eric Blake, National Hurricane Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and we may see an early start to it this year because the Gulf of Mexico is warmer than usual, providing good energy for storm formation. The NWS National Hurricane Center has announced some changes to their hurricane forecasts for this upcoming season, including the shrinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14362","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\/14362","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=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}