{"id":5729,"date":"2016-01-13T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:31:11","slug":"first-named-storm-of-the-year-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/first-named-storm-of-the-year-in-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"First named storm of the year in the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the National Hurricane Center noted the development of the first named storm of the year, Subtropical Storm Alex, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0This is the first time since 1978 that a named storm has formed in January, according to the <em>Capital Weather Gang<\/em> in a story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/01\/13\/its-january-and-a-tropical-storm-has-formed-in-the-atlantic-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0A subtropical storm has some characteristics of a tropical storm but some other elements more like a regular mid-latitude storm.<\/p>\n<p>On average, the first named storm of the year does not occur until July 9. \u00a0More information on the climatology of January storms can be found in yesterday&#8217;s blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/tropics\/alex-tropical-cyclone-formation-possible-in-the-east-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> from Chris Robbins at <em>iWeatherNet.com<\/em>. \u00a0What is even more amazing is that there is also a hurricane, Pali, in the central Pacific Ocean, the earliest one has ever formed there. \u00a0The formation of both of these storms can be linked in part to unusually warm ocean waters in the two ocean basins.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is expected to move north and may bring some rain to the Azores but should be no threat to the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/alex-1-13-2016.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5730\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/alex-1-13-2016-300x240.gif\" alt=\"alex 1-13-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/alex-1-13-2016-300x240.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/alex-1-13-2016-768x614.gif 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/alex-1-13-2016-173x138.gif 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the National Hurricane Center noted the development of the first named storm of the year, Subtropical Storm Alex, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0This is the first time since 1978 that a named storm has formed in January, according to the Capital Weather Gang in a story here. \u00a0A subtropical storm has some characteristics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","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\/5729","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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}