{"id":8705,"date":"2016-10-14T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:30:01","slug":"la-nina-is-back-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/la-nina-is-back-in-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"La Ni\u00f1a is back in the picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, NOAA declared that based on the most recent data, the chance of a La Ni\u00f1a developing was only about 40 percent, and they removed the La Ni\u00f1a watch that they had declared earlier this summer. \u00a0One month later, and the La Ni\u00f1a watch has returned with a 70% chance of occurring. \u00a0The change is due to evolving conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which are back to looking like a La Ni\u00f1a is coming. \u00a0However, forecasters think that it will likely be a weak one and that it may not last long enough to officially be declared a La Ni\u00f1a episode, giving it a 55% chance of lasting through the winter. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/anticipation-october-2016-enso-forecast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/3-La-Nina-conditions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6620\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/3-La-Nina-conditions-261x300.png\" alt=\"3 La Nina conditions\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/3-La-Nina-conditions-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/3-La-Nina-conditions-120x138.png 120w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/3-La-Nina-conditions.png 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, NOAA declared that based on the most recent data, the chance of a La Ni\u00f1a developing was only about 40 percent, and they removed the La Ni\u00f1a watch that they had declared earlier this summer. \u00a0One month later, and the La Ni\u00f1a watch has returned with a 70% chance of occurring. \u00a0The change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}