{"id":6762,"date":"2016-04-18T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:31:19","slug":"more-active-atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/more-active-atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"More active Atlantic hurricane season forecast for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early forecasts for the 2016 Atlantic tropical season are starting to come out, and so far all of them predict that the tropical season this year will be more active than usual. \u00a0El Ni\u00f1o acted as a brake last year and the hurricane season was relatively quiet, but with El Ni\u00f1o going away and most likely being replaced by La Ni\u00f1a, that means less wind shear aloft and more likelihood that tropical waves will be able to develop into full-fledged hurricanes. \u00a0You can read more about it at <em>Reuters<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/topstories\/more-active-atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-for-2016\/ar-BBrucN2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that even in a quiet season, any hurricane can become severe and take a path that creates significant destruction (think Hurricane Andrew in 1992). \u00a0And more tropical storms can mean less likelihood of drought in the areas that get impacted by the storms, so they aren&#8217;t all bad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Business Insider<\/em> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-comes-la-nina-2016-4\">story<\/a> listing some other impacts of the likely La Ni\u00f1a in coming months: more drought in California, fewer East Coast blizzards, developing drought in Texas, and the possibility of a great skiing season in the Pacific Northwest. \u00a0Also a hot summer for us here in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>One sad note here: Dr. Bill Gray, the visionary Colorado State climatologist who founded the use of seasonal hurricane predictions, died yesterday at the age of 86. \u00a0You can read more about him at the\u00a0<em>Weather Underground<\/em>\u00a0blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/bill-gray-a-towering-figure-in-hurricane-science\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/bill-gray-a-towering-figure-in-hurricane-science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3294\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-300x240.gif\" alt=\"named-hurricane-fran\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-300x240.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-1024x819.gif 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-173x138.gif 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early forecasts for the 2016 Atlantic tropical season are starting to come out, and so far all of them predict that the tropical season this year will be more active than usual. \u00a0El Ni\u00f1o acted as a brake last year and the hurricane season was relatively quiet, but with El Ni\u00f1o going away and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-el-nino-and-la-nina","category-history","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","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=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}