{"id":21352,"date":"2021-03-14T21:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21352"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:27:20","slug":"noaa-coldest-february-for-the-globe-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/03\/noaa-coldest-february-for-the-globe-since-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: Coldest February for the globe since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest monthly and winter climate summary for the globe was released by NOAA this week. It shows that it was the coldest February for the earth as a whole since 2014, with the significant cold outbreak in the central US helping to drive down the temperatures. But the globe as a whole was still much warmer than the long-term average, and this February was the 16th warmest since the global record started in 1880. The December through February winter record was the 8th warmest since records began. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/global-climate-202102?fbclid=IwAR2fGmtXYUG3UXYEYSQlQ1Ewze4YY8BY7LQ_MxSMglKNTipoPXSxZjQb_do\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png 990w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png 990w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map.png 990w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Temperature-Percentiles-Map-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map.png 990w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/03\/December-February-2021-Global-Departures-from-Average-Map-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest monthly and winter climate summary for the globe was released by NOAA this week. It shows that it was the coldest February for the earth as a whole since 2014, with the significant cold outbreak in the central US helping to drive down the temperatures. But the globe as a whole was still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":21353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21352","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\/21352","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=21352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21357,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions\/21357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}