{"id":2588,"date":"2015-04-08T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2015-04-08T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:15:34","slug":"why-no-seasonal-tornado-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/04\/why-no-seasonal-tornado-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why no seasonal tornado forecast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year NOAA and other groups put out a forecast for the expected number of tropical storms and hurricanes expected to occur in the Atlantic basin. \u00a0This forecast is based on the El Nino phase as well as other factors such as long-term ocean patterns and past seasons. \u00a0But there is no similar forecast for the average number of tornadoes each year. \u00a0Why is that? \u00a0Matt Daniel, a graduate of UGA&#8217;s Geography Department and Atmospheric Sciences program, explains this in a blog posting at <em>EarthSky <\/em>(<a title=\"Why no seasonal tornado forecast?\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/why-no-seasonal-tornado-forecast?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=a3f8c297e4-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-a3f8c297e4-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>)<em>. \u00a0<\/em>The difference has a lot to do with the different sizes of hurricanes versus tornadoes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2589\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/april-15-tornado-outlook-e1365168485150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2589\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/april-15-tornado-outlook-e1365168485150-300x213.png\" alt=\"Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center\" width=\"337\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/april-15-tornado-outlook-e1365168485150-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/april-15-tornado-outlook-e1365168485150-195x138.png 195w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/april-15-tornado-outlook-e1365168485150.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year NOAA and other groups put out a forecast for the expected number of tropical storms and hurricanes expected to occur in the Atlantic basin. \u00a0This forecast is based on the El Nino phase as well as other factors such as long-term ocean patterns and past seasons. \u00a0But there is no similar forecast for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}