{"id":203,"date":"2014-05-22T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=203"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:46","slug":"noaa-issues-official-2014-hurricane-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/05\/noaa-issues-official-2014-hurricane-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA issues official 2014 hurricane forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA issued its official forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season this morning.\u00a0 The number of storms is predicted to be less than normal, due mainly to the expected onset of El Nino later this summer, which usually tends to suppress hurricane activity.\u00a0 However, even one storm can have significant consequences if it makes landfall in a vulnerable area.\u00a0 For example, Hurricane Andrew occurred in an El Nino year but caused huge amounts of damage in south Florida and lesser amounts in Louisiana when it made a second landfall there.\u00a0 NOAA forecasts are statistical based on the entire season and do not give any indication of where these hurricanes might go.\u00a0 For more information, click <a title=\"2014 hurricane prediction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/outlooks\/hurricane.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-hurricane-outlook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-hurricane-outlook-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-hurricane-outlook-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-hurricane-outlook-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-hurricane-outlook.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA issued its official forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season this morning.\u00a0 The number of storms is predicted to be less than normal, due mainly to the expected onset of El Nino later this summer, which usually tends to suppress hurricane activity.\u00a0 However, even one storm can have significant consequences if it makes landfall in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}