{"id":6056,"date":"2016-02-10T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:04:35","slug":"how-does-this-el-nino-compare-so-far-to-previous-strong-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/how-does-this-el-nino-compare-so-far-to-previous-strong-events\/","title":{"rendered":"How does this El Ni\u00f1o compare so far to previous strong events?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center put together a scorecard of how the rainfall conditions this winter (December to February to date) compare to previous strong El Ni\u00f1o events. \u00a0You can see the scorecard at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sercc.com\/ElNinoRainScorecard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sercc.com\/ElNinoRainScorecard.pdf<\/a>. \u00a0The scorecard shows that the 1997-98 event set records across the region for the wettest DJF on record. \u00a0The 1982-83 event had quite a few stations with rainfall records in the top two. \u00a0By comparison, this year&#8217;s event has been setting fewer records, with the wettest conditions confined to south Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, February is not over and we are likely to see some additional precipitation (either rain, snow or ice) by the end of the month, but probably not enough to change all of these rankings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2577\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2577\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"rain-in-puddle-1059687-m free images\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center put together a scorecard of how the rainfall conditions this winter (December to February to date) compare to previous strong El Ni\u00f1o events. \u00a0You can see the scorecard at\u00a0https:\/\/www.sercc.com\/ElNinoRainScorecard.pdf. \u00a0The scorecard shows that the 1997-98 event set records across the region for the wettest DJF on record. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","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=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}