{"id":6125,"date":"2016-02-18T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:05:40","slug":"unusual-early-heat-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/unusual-early-heat-in-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual early heat in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Wednesday, Phoenix reported a high temperature of 90 F. \u00a0This is the earliest that Phoenix has ever reported a 90 F reading. \u00a0The average date is March 30, and the previous record was February 24, set in 1904 and 1986. \u00a0This may be due in part to the continuing dry conditions in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/911734\/historic-heat-phoenix-reaches-earliest-90-degree-day-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/911734\/historic-heat-phoenix-reaches-earliest-90-degree-day-on-record\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EarthSky also pointed out that the Southwest is becoming drier\u00a0due to changes in weather patterns which control the flow of moisture through the region. \u00a0You can read their discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/u-s-southwest-is-drying?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=03daf27374-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-03daf27374-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/phx.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6126\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/phx-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Creative Commons\/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/phx-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/phx-276x138.jpg 276w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/phx.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Creative Commons\/Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Wednesday, Phoenix reported a high temperature of 90 F. \u00a0This is the earliest that Phoenix has ever reported a 90 F reading. \u00a0The average date is March 30, and the previous record was February 24, set in 1904 and 1986. \u00a0This may be due in part to the continuing dry conditions in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","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=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}