{"id":6717,"date":"2016-04-12T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:53:29","slug":"unprecedented-widespread-warmth-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/unprecedented-widespread-warmth-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented widespread warmth in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest edition of &#8220;Beyond the Data&#8221;, Deke Arndt of NOAA discusses the warmth that enveloped the entire US in March 2016. \u00a0His study shows that this is the first time since records began in 1895 that every single climate division in the US, including Alaska, reported temperatures in the &#8220;warmer than normal&#8221; category. \u00a0This means that each division was in the top third of all years for temperature. \u00a0Normally only parts of the US are in that category, with atmospheric patterns causing some areas to be warm while others are cold.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/march-march-march\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/march-march-march<\/a>\u00a0with additional commentary from the Capital Weather Gang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/04\/12\/march-sets-stunning-record-for-wall-to-wall-warmth-in-lower-48-and-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar-16-us-temp-ranking.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6651\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar-16-us-temp-ranking-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"mar 16 us temp ranking\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar-16-us-temp-ranking.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar-16-us-temp-ranking-189x138.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest edition of &#8220;Beyond the Data&#8221;, Deke Arndt of NOAA discusses the warmth that enveloped the entire US in March 2016. \u00a0His study shows that this is the first time since records began in 1895 that every single climate division in the US, including Alaska, reported temperatures in the &#8220;warmer than normal&#8221; category. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717","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=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}