{"id":948,"date":"2014-09-29T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=948"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:13","slug":"extreme-weather-events-of-2013-are-they-linked-to-changing-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/extreme-weather-events-of-2013-are-they-linked-to-changing-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme weather events of 2013&#8211;are they linked to changing climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Meteorological Society has recently released their annual report &#8220;Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective&#8221;.\u00a0 In this report they analyze sixteen different extreme weather events for how often they were\u00a0 likely to happen as well as the economic impacts they caused.\u00a0 Part of their analysis was to determine whether the recent trends towards a warmer climate may have impacted the occurrence of the extreme event.\u00a0 You can down the complete report by clicking <a title=\"2013 extreme events BAMS\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.ametsoc.org\/ams\/index.cfm\/publications\/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams\/explaining-extreme-events-of-2013-from-a-climate-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 A summary of the report is available <a title=\"NCDC Explaining Extremes 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/explaining-extreme-events-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2013, the scientists found that the drought in California was not linked to climate change, the heat wave in Australia was enhanced by recent warming trends, and that the flooding in Boulder CO and surrounding areas is less likely to occur in the future under current trends in climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Meteorological Society has recently released their annual report &#8220;Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective&#8221;.\u00a0 In this report they analyze sixteen different extreme weather events for how often they were\u00a0 likely to happen as well as the economic impacts they caused.\u00a0 Part of their analysis was to determine whether the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22870,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/22870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}