{"id":2123,"date":"2015-02-21T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-02-21T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T14:38:02","slug":"2014-hurricane-season-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/02\/2014-hurricane-season-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 hurricane season summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA has just released their final summary of the 2014 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean (<a title=\"2014 atlantic hurricane season\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/data\/tcr\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>\u00a0to storm summaries). \u00a0It shows that the season was below average in activity, as expected, and that not a single storm hit the US mainland this year except a brush by Arthur on the North Carolina Outer Banks. \u00a0Since tropical activity is one of the main sources of moisture in the Southeast in the summer, it&#8217;s no wonder that dry conditions developed in parts of the region last year.<\/p>\n<p>What will the 2015 season bring? \u00a0No one has released their forecast yet, but what we get will depend on the status of El Nino. \u00a0Generally in El Nino years we get less tropical activity, since strong winds aloft &#8220;blow the top off&#8221; developing systems. \u00a0If we get the opposite, La Nina, tropical storms are more likely. \u00a0The IRI plume I discussed yesterday is leaning towards a weak El Nino, but it&#8217;s really too early to say.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2124\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/tracks-at-2014_sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2124\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/tracks-at-2014_sm-300x232.png\" alt=\"Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center\" width=\"361\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/tracks-at-2014_sm-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/tracks-at-2014_sm-179x138.png 179w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/tracks-at-2014_sm.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA National Hurricane Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA has just released their final summary of the 2014 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean (link\u00a0to storm summaries). \u00a0It shows that the season was below average in activity, as expected, and that not a single storm hit the US mainland this year except a brush by Arthur on the North Carolina Outer Banks. \u00a0Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","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=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}