{"id":723,"date":"2014-09-04T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=723"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:38","slug":"a-historic-year-for-temperature-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/a-historic-year-for-temperature-extremes\/","title":{"rendered":"A historic year for temperature extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic magazine had an interesting entry in their CityLab blog on temperature extremes in the US this week. \u00a0The article pointed out that in most year, extremes of cold or warm dominate the country as a whole. \u00a0 However, this year there have been a nearly equal number of record hot and cold temperatures due to the high amplitude wave pattern which brought high pressure, drought and hot conditions to the western US and cool and dry conditions to most of the East. \u00a0Scientists are still determining the ultimate cause of the unusual weather pattern but some link it to unusually warm water in the Gulf of Alaska. \u00a0To read the article, click <a title=\"Unusual temperature extreme pattern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/weather\/2014\/09\/its-a-historic-year-for-american-temperature-extremes\/379507\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/temp-extremes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-724\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/temp-extremes-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"temp extremes\" width=\"505\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/temp-extremes-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/temp-extremes-282x138.jpg 282w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/temp-extremes.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic magazine had an interesting entry in their CityLab blog on temperature extremes in the US this week. \u00a0The article pointed out that in most year, extremes of cold or warm dominate the country as a whole. \u00a0 However, this year there have been a nearly equal number of record hot and cold temperatures due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22806,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/22806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}