{"id":7144,"date":"2016-05-22T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:32:58","slug":"will-floridas-hurricane-drought-end-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/will-floridas-hurricane-drought-end-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Florida&#8217;s hurricane drought end this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Erdman wrote a piece in <em>WunderBlog<\/em> about Florida&#8217;s decade-long hurricane drought. \u00a0It&#8217;s been over ten years since a hurricane made landfall anywhere in the state. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/florida-hurricane-drought-may2016#prclt-mDHqzC1v\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With this year likely to bring a La Ni\u00f1a to the tropics, the chances of a hurricane in the Atlantic go up. \u00a0But we still can&#8217;t tell where storms are likely to go or exactly where they will form, so even in a La Ni\u00f1a year they could be bypassed by any storms that occur. \u00a0And even in years with low counts, any one storm has the potential to cause enormous damage (for example, Hurricane Andrew in 1992).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7145\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/atl-hurr-since-wilma-2005-jan2016.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Erdman wrote a piece in WunderBlog about Florida&#8217;s decade-long hurricane drought. \u00a0It&#8217;s been over ten years since a hurricane made landfall anywhere in the state. \u00a0You can read it here. With this year likely to bring a La Ni\u00f1a to the tropics, the chances of a hurricane in the Atlantic go up. \u00a0But we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}