{"id":8617,"date":"2016-10-06T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T01:12:49","slug":"how-bad-could-matthew-be-past-hurricanes-offer-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/how-bad-could-matthew-be-past-hurricanes-offer-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad could Matthew be?  Past hurricanes offer clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Matthew approaches the coast, you might be wondering how the storm compares to past hurricanes in the area. \u00a0CNN published an article today which described some of the previous hurricanes which moved through the same region and how they compare. \u00a0You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/05\/us\/hurricane-matthew-comparisons\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/05\/us\/hurricane-matthew-comparisons\/index.html<\/a>. \u00a0Needless to say, Matthew is far surpassing the strength of all of these storms and the impacts are likely to be far more severe than anything we have seen in this region since the 1890s when several severe hurricanes hit the Georgia coast. \u00a0That is the worst storm to hit the region in living memory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8618\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8618\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew versus Floyd 1999 track. Source: CNN\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Matthew_vs_Floyd-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew versus Floyd 1999 track. Source: CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Matthew approaches the coast, you might be wondering how the storm compares to past hurricanes in the area. \u00a0CNN published an article today which described some of the previous hurricanes which moved through the same region and how they compare. \u00a0You can read it at\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/05\/us\/hurricane-matthew-comparisons\/index.html. \u00a0Needless to say, Matthew is far surpassing the strength [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","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=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}