{"id":1447,"date":"2014-12-01T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:21:27","slug":"hurricane-season-ends-no-major-hurricanes-hit-the-us-in-the-last-3326-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/hurricane-season-ends-no-major-hurricanes-hit-the-us-in-the-last-3326-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane season ends; no major hurricanes hit the US in the last 3,326 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 30 marks the end of the hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0The map below summarizes all of the storm paths this year. \u00a0Only one storm hit the US: Hurricane Arthur over the 4th of July weekend. \u00a0The lack of tropical systems this year was one of the main reasons for the development of drought in the Southeast this summer, in spite of relatively cool conditions.<\/p>\n<p>An article in <em>Gawker<\/em> also describes the lack of a major hurricane (Saffir-Simpson scale 3 or higher) and why that means increased risk along the coast when one finally does make landfall. \u00a0You can read that story <a title=\"No major hurricane in 3326 days\" href=\"https:\/\/thevane.gawker.com\/a-major-hurricane-hasnt-hit-the-united-states-in-3-326-1665372028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1448\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/2014-tropical-cyclone-season.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1448\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/2014-tropical-cyclone-season-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NOAA\" width=\"520\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/2014-tropical-cyclone-season-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/2014-tropical-cyclone-season-230x138.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/2014-tropical-cyclone-season.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: University of Miami\/RSMAS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30 marks the end of the hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0The map below summarizes all of the storm paths this year. \u00a0Only one storm hit the US: Hurricane Arthur over the 4th of July weekend. \u00a0The lack of tropical systems this year was one of the main reasons for the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22966,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/22966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}