{"id":9328,"date":"2016-11-30T14:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:38:26","slug":"first-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/first-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"First above-normal Atlantic hurricane season since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is not only the last day of meteorological fall but is also the last day of the Atlantic tropical season. \u00a0For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016, including 7 hurricanes (Alex, Earl, Gaston, Hermine, Matthew, Nicole, and Otto), 3 of which were major hurricanes (Gaston, Matthew and Nicole). NOAA\u2019s updated hurricane season outlook in August called for 12 to 17 named storms, including 5 to 8 hurricanes, with 2 to 4 of those predicted to become major hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA has provided a summary of the season at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/first-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season-since-2012-produced-five-landfalling-us\">https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/first-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season-since-2012-produced-five-landfalling-us<\/a>. \u00a0You can also read about this eclectic season at <em>Weather Underground<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/early-late-and-farflung-the-eclectic-2016-atlantic-hurricane-seaso?__prclt=suiLLhxz\">here<\/a>\u00a0and read the Weather Channel&#8217;s list of ten things to remember about the season at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/hurricane-season-2016-atlantic-recap\">https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/hurricane-season-2016-atlantic-recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-hurricane-infographic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9329\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-hurricane-infographic-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"2016-hurricane-infographic\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-hurricane-infographic-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-hurricane-infographic-178x138.jpg 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-hurricane-infographic.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is not only the last day of meteorological fall but is also the last day of the Atlantic tropical season. \u00a0For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016, including 7 hurricanes (Alex, Earl, Gaston, Hermine, Matthew, Nicole, and Otto), 3 of which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9335,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}