{"id":3283,"date":"2015-05-31T09:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:09:02","slug":"weird-el-nino-contributes-to-month-of-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/weird-el-nino-contributes-to-month-of-extreme-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Weird&#8221; El Nino contributes to month of extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Pos<\/em>t wrote earlier this week about the extremes in weather that have occurred around the globe in May. \u00a0Scientists attribute the extremes at least in part to an unusually stationary jet stream which has locked in place, bringing torrential rain to Texas and Oklahoma and leaving other areas dry, including much of the Southeast. \u00a0They link this to the current El Nino, which developed at an odd time compared to its usual behavior. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/this-has-been-a-month-of-extreme-weather-around-the-world\/2015\/05\/29\/1a7ec12c-064b-11e5-93f4-f24d4af7f97d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The floods in the southern Plains may also be attributed in part to more humidity in the air from rising temperatures in recent years. \u00a0The flooding in Texas was so big that it ended their long-term drought; you can read an article about this at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/texas-floods-big-ended-states-drought\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/texas-floods-big-ended-states-drought\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3284\" style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/cows-in-floods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3284\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/cows-in-floods-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Rod Aydelotte\/Waco Tribune Herald via AP and MintPressNews.com\" width=\"481\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/cows-in-floods-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/cows-in-floods-216x138.jpg 216w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/cows-in-floods.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Rod Aydelotte\/Waco Tribune Herald via AP and MintPressNews.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post wrote earlier this week about the extremes in weather that have occurred around the globe in May. \u00a0Scientists attribute the extremes at least in part to an unusually stationary jet stream which has locked in place, bringing torrential rain to Texas and Oklahoma and leaving other areas dry, including much of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}