{"id":7755,"date":"2016-07-27T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2016-07-27T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:21:54","slug":"where-are-the-tropical-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/where-are-the-tropical-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the tropical storms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is nice and warm, well above the long-term average. \u00a0But in spite of the warm water, the tropics have been very slow to start producing any tropical storms this year after an early start to the season. \u00a0In part this is due to the presence of Saharan dust and dry air coming off of Africa, which prevents the development of any storm seedlings. \u00a0Also, the swing from El Ni\u00f1o to La Ni\u00f1a has been a little slower than expected, which reduces the chances of tropical development too. \u00a0You can read more about this at <em>Weather Underground&#8217;<\/em>s latest blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/07\/27\/the-tropical-atlantic-ocean-is-toasty-warm-so-where-are-all-the-storms\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But never fear! \u00a0A new wave has just come off the coast of Africa, and it looks like it has a moderate chance of developing into a tropical storm. Still a long ways off, so we have plenty of time to watch it. \u00a0But as we enter the peak season for Atlantic tropical systems, expect to see more and more action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7756\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"water vapor atlantic tropics 7-27-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/water-vapor-atlantic-tropics-7-27-2016-371x138.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is nice and warm, well above the long-term average. \u00a0But in spite of the warm water, the tropics have been very slow to start producing any tropical storms this year after an early start to the season. \u00a0In part this is due to the presence of Saharan dust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7755","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-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}