{"id":6749,"date":"2016-04-16T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2016-04-16T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T01:30:15","slug":"how-the-growing-season-has-changed-since-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/how-the-growing-season-has-changed-since-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How the Growing Season Has Changed Since 1980&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/how-the-growing-season-has-changed-since-1980-naa-ben-potter\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpFM1lUbGxOREV6WkRrdyIsInQiOiJVN3BPcjd3UENDSDlmT0YyT0ZJZ0UxQysyWGppbjJmM1UzSWxRemtTcVI2bjBNZ0RPNlYxUzdcL3p2TFkxZnJ3dXIwbFVcL1RzdzdPcGp2S2RXc3lIMlZjT2g4RFZ4UUx5RHBMZm4rXC9GXC8yb009In0%3D\">here<\/a>. \u00a0They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period.<\/p>\n<p>The article also relates\u00a0the increase in temperatures\u00a0to an increase in severe weather; however, if you look carefully at the graph, there is an increase in F0 tornadoes over time but none in F1 and higher tornadoes. \u00a0I believe that increase in F0 tornadoes is due to increased observations of small tornadoes by people with cameras and not to an increase in severe weather overall, since there is no trend in the larger tornadoes which are more likely to be observed through their damage paths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/spring-fall-frost-date-changes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6750\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/spring-fall-frost-date-changes-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"spring fall frost date changes\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/spring-fall-frost-date-changes-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/spring-fall-frost-date-changes-155x138.jpg 155w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/spring-fall-frost-date-changes.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. \u00a0You can read it here. \u00a0They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period. The article also relates\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-crops","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","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=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}