{"id":7893,"date":"2016-08-06T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:39:23","slug":"the-u-s-coast-is-in-an-unprecedented-hurricane-drought-why-this-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/the-u-s-coast-is-in-an-unprecedented-hurricane-drought-why-this-is-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought \u2014 why this is terrifying&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Capital Weather Gang<\/em> has a thoughtful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/08\/04\/the-u-s-coast-is-in-an-unprecedented-hurricane-drought-why-this-is-terrifying\/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&amp;wpmm=1\">article<\/a> today describing the current drought of major hurricanes hitting the US and why it is so worrisome. \u00a0The streak has reached 3,939 days, two years longer than any previous drought. \u00a0The drought for Florida is more than ten years, and for Georgia much longer than that. \u00a0The article discusses the chances of this happening and notes that scientists don&#8217;t have a good explanation for this. \u00a0 According to the article, it may be more &#8220;dumb luck&#8221; than any particular factor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7894\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7894\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Brian McNoldy via Washington Post\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/hurricane-floods-and-droughts-213x138.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Brian McNoldy via Washington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang has a thoughtful article today describing the current drought of major hurricanes hitting the US and why it is so worrisome. \u00a0The streak has reached 3,939 days, two years longer than any previous drought. \u00a0The drought for Florida is more than ten years, and for Georgia much longer than that. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","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=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7895,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}