{"id":14632,"date":"2018-07-11T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2018-07-11T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:05:29","slug":"understanding-long-range-forecasting-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/07\/understanding-long-range-forecasting-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding long-range forecasting maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s Climate Prediction Center produces long-range forecasts for several time periods, including 6-10 days, 8-14 days, 3-4 weeks, and for one to three months at a time going out to as much as a year ahead. Most of these forecasts provide shading to indicate where the probabilities are tipped towards warmer or colder than normal (or wetter or drier, for precipitation maps). But there a lot of confusion about how to interpret these maps. Here is a good discussion by Michelle L&#8217;Heureux of NOAA on how to interpret the maps correctly and what they really tell us. You can read it at <em>Weather Nation<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weathernationtv.com\/news\/understanding-long-range-forecasting-fast-slow\/\">https:\/\/www.weathernationtv.com\/news\/understanding-long-range-forecasting-fast-slow\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/jun-18-precip-outlook-a.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14931\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/jun-18-precip-outlook-a-300x295.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/jun-18-precip-outlook-a-300x295.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/jun-18-precip-outlook-a-140x138.gif 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s Climate Prediction Center produces long-range forecasts for several time periods, including 6-10 days, 8-14 days, 3-4 weeks, and for one to three months at a time going out to as much as a year ahead. Most of these forecasts provide shading to indicate where the probabilities are tipped towards warmer or colder than normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632","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=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14983,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/14983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}