{"id":5683,"date":"2016-01-08T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2016-01-08T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:22:06","slug":"could-we-get-a-subtropical-storm-in-the-atlantic-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/could-we-get-a-subtropical-storm-in-the-atlantic-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Could we get a subtropical storm in the Atlantic this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hurricane Center is watching a swirl of clouds off the coast of North Carolina for signs of development. \u00a0It is currently an extratropical storm, but because it is over warm water it could develop some tropical characteristics and might gain enough strength to gain a name. \u00a0If it did, it would be called Subtropical Storm Alex. \u00a0Last year, we had a subtropical storm named Ana, but it did not develop until May.<\/p>\n<p>The weather community is buzzing about this! \u00a0You can read about it in <em>Forbes<\/em> from Marshall Shepherd, UGA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/01\/08\/could-we-have-the-first-named-atlantic-tropical-system-of-2016-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and from <em>CBS12<\/em>\u00a0news <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/area-of-low-pressure-watched-by-hurricane-center-rare-for-january\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The chance of development is only 30% so it might not happen, but it does illustrate that the ocean this year has been very warm. \u00a0The Pacific is also active this year, with a storm developing west of Hawaii in the central Pacific. \u00a02016 will definitely be a year to watch in the tropics!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5684\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016-300x222.png\" alt=\"subtropical storm 1-8-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016-187x138.png 187w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/subtropical-storm-1-8-2016.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hurricane Center is watching a swirl of clouds off the coast of North Carolina for signs of development. \u00a0It is currently an extratropical storm, but because it is over warm water it could develop some tropical characteristics and might gain enough strength to gain a name. \u00a0If it did, it would be called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","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=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}