{"id":3110,"date":"2015-05-17T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2015-05-17T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:23:47","slug":"fifth-super-typhoon-of-the-year-so-far-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/fifth-super-typhoon-of-the-year-so-far-in-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth super typhoon of the year so far in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed in earlier posts, an El Nino is currently present in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 This means that the surface water temperature there is above normal.\u00a0 One of the consequences of this is that more strong hurricanes form than usual, since the warm water acts as fuel for the storms.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Pacific Ocean has already had five super typhoons (equivalent to a category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean).\u00a0 In 1997, the last strong El Nino, they had a total of 12 super typhoons in the region, but the 5th did not come until July 22.\u00a0 So this year is about two months ahead of usual, with plenty of season left to go.\u00a0 You can read more about this unusual season at the latest Weather Underground blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/comment.html?entrynum=2992&amp;cm_ven=FB_BLOG_AS_051715_4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3111\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/super-typhoon-dolphin-cimss.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3111\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/super-typhoon-dolphin-cimss-300x233.png\" alt=\"Super Typhoon Dolphin.  Source: University of Wisconsin CIMSS\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/super-typhoon-dolphin-cimss-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/super-typhoon-dolphin-cimss-178x138.png 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/super-typhoon-dolphin-cimss.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High resolution image of the eye of Super Typhoon Dolphin. Source: University of Wisconsin CIMSS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed in earlier posts, an El Nino is currently present in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 This means that the surface water temperature there is above normal.\u00a0 One of the consequences of this is that more strong hurricanes form than usual, since the warm water acts as fuel for the storms. This year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","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=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}