{"id":786,"date":"2014-09-10T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:19","slug":"the-problem-with-seasonal-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/the-problem-with-seasonal-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with seasonal forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Carson wrote an entertaining article on his blog about seasonal forecasts.\u00a0 You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcarsonweather.com\/#!FINE-FINE-FINE-LETS-TALK-ABOUT-THIS-WINTER\/c21i6\/CE745C14-9D3A-412A-BB78-C9A4F9F465B2\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 After a satire site printed a map showing an outlook for a very cold winter in the East that went viral, meteorologists spent a lot of time shooting down the &#8220;made-up&#8221; forecast.\u00a0 Keith talks about this and how seasonal forecasts are made as well as giving an outlook for this winter based on actual forecasts from the Climate Prediction Center and other official sites.\u00a0 Keep in mind that his blog is for the Northeast US, so you should look at the national maps to see the forecasts for the Southeast.\u00a0 So far most of the official forecasts are going with a weak El Nino occurring, which should bring cooler and wet conditions to the southern parts of Alabama and Georgia and northern Florida but may not affect conditions elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Carson wrote an entertaining article on his blog about seasonal forecasts.\u00a0 You can read it here.\u00a0 After a satire site printed a map showing an outlook for a very cold winter in the East that went viral, meteorologists spent a lot of time shooting down the &#8220;made-up&#8221; forecast.\u00a0 Keith talks about this and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}