{"id":21545,"date":"2021-04-10T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21545"},"modified":"2021-04-10T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T23:37:56","slug":"reuters-u-s-changes-average-for-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/04\/reuters-u-s-changes-average-for-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: U.S. changes average for hurricane season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday NOAA announced that they will be switching to the 1991-2020 averages for the Atlantic tropical season. Previously, NOAA\u2019s period-of-record was 1981-2010, for which the average number of named storms is 12, the average number of hurricanes is six, and the average of major hurricanes &#8212; packing winds of at least 111 miles per hour (178.6 kph) &#8212; is three. The average number of named storms in the new 30-year period is 14, with seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/u-changes-average-hurricane-season-010103376.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/u-changes-average-hurricane-season-010103376.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/08\/2017-hurricanes-from-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/08\/2017-hurricanes-from-space.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/08\/2017-hurricanes-from-space.jpg 920w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/08\/2017-hurricanes-from-space-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/08\/2017-hurricanes-from-space-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>2017 Hurricane Katia, Hurricane Irma and Tropical Storm Jose on Septemberr 8 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday NOAA announced that they will be switching to the 1991-2020 averages for the Atlantic tropical season. Previously, NOAA\u2019s period-of-record was 1981-2010, for which the average number of named storms is 12, the average number of hurricanes is six, and the average of major hurricanes &#8212; packing winds of at least 111 miles per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":20096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545","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=21545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21546,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions\/21546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}