{"id":5195,"date":"2015-11-17T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T18:30:03","slug":"polar-patterns-could-open-the-gates-for-cold-wintry-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/polar-patterns-could-open-the-gates-for-cold-wintry-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Patterns Could Open the Gates for Cold, Wintry Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article to their blog today from\u00a0Bradley McLamb, Meteorologist at the NC Division of Air Quality, and Corey Davis\u00a0listing the possibilities for cold outbreaks this winter. \u00a0Even though El Ni\u00f1o is currently expected to impact the Southeast&#8217;s weather for the next few months, not every El Ni\u00f1o is exactly the same, and some hold the potential for a weakened polar vortex which would allow colder weather to move into the Southeast. \u00a0This is similar to the conditions we saw in January 2014 and February 2015 with frigid air entering the region. \u00a0You can read the discussion at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=164&amp;h=5666e5c1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=164&amp;h=5666e5c1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5196\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"PolarVortex\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-212x138.jpg 212w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article to their blog today from\u00a0Bradley McLamb, Meteorologist at the NC Division of Air Quality, and Corey Davis\u00a0listing the possibilities for cold outbreaks this winter. \u00a0Even though El Ni\u00f1o is currently expected to impact the Southeast&#8217;s weather for the next few months, not every El Ni\u00f1o [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}