{"id":21773,"date":"2021-05-20T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21773"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:39:07","slug":"noaa-predicts-another-active-atlantic-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/05\/noaa-predicts-another-active-atlantic-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA predicts another active Atlantic hurricane season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NOAA released their seasonal outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season today. It shows that they expect another active hurricane season due to neutral conditions and warm sea surface temperatures. The highlights below summarize their outlook but you can read the whole thing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/noaa-predicts-another-active-atlantic-hurricane-season\">https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/noaa-predicts-another-active-atlantic-hurricane-season<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>The Highlights for the 2021 Prediction:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Overall:<\/strong>\u00a0Predicting a 60% chance for the season&#8217;s activity to be above normal, a 30% chance for near normal, and 10% chance for a below normal hurricane season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Named Storms\u00a0<em>(tropical storms and hurricanes)<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0 13 to 20\u00a0(normal is 14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hurricanes:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a06 to 10\u00a0(normal is 7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major (category 3, 4 or 5) Hurricanes:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a03 to 5\u00a0(normal is 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/05\/2021-hurricane-outlook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/05\/2021-hurricane-outlook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/05\/2021-hurricane-outlook.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/05\/2021-hurricane-outlook-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/05\/2021-hurricane-outlook-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their seasonal outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season today. It shows that they expect another active hurricane season due to neutral conditions and warm sea surface temperatures. The highlights below summarize their outlook but you can read the whole thing at https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/noaa-predicts-another-active-atlantic-hurricane-season. The Highlights for the 2021 Prediction: Overall:\u00a0Predicting a 60% chance for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":21774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773","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=21773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21775,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions\/21775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}