{"id":447,"date":"2014-07-24T00:17:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:14:13","slug":"saharan-dust-cool-atlantic-may-keep-hurricane-numbers-low-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/07\/saharan-dust-cool-atlantic-may-keep-hurricane-numbers-low-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Saharan dust, cool Atlantic may keep hurricane numbers low this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Sun-Sentine<\/em>l reported this week that unusually strong bursts of Saharan dust are being blown off of Africa this year. \u00a0This is similar to the pattern that caused lower hurricane activity than expected in last year&#8217;s hurricane season. \u00a0In addition, cooler than normal temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are also working to prevent the development of tropical storms, which normally need ocean temperatures of at least 82F to begin development. \u00a0Another factor which may inhibit hurricane development this year is the presence of strong wind shear across the Caribbean, which prevents storms from developing a strong vertical circulation which strengthens the storms in their life cycles. \u00a0You can find the story by clicking <a title=\"Saharan dust inhibits hurricanes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/broward\/fl-saharan-dust-vs-hurricanes-20140718,0,1390206.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun-Sentinel reported this week that unusually strong bursts of Saharan dust are being blown off of Africa this year. \u00a0This is similar to the pattern that caused lower hurricane activity than expected in last year&#8217;s hurricane season. \u00a0In addition, cooler than normal temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are also working to prevent the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22758,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/22758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}