{"id":9776,"date":"2017-01-18T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:56:00","slug":"2016-had-the-fewest-tornado-deaths-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/2016-had-the-fewest-tornado-deaths-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 had the fewest tornado deaths in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>USA Today<\/em> reported earlier this week that in all 2016 had only 17 tornado deaths during the year. \u00a0This is the lowest in 30 years and the second lowest since accurate records began in 1950. \u00a0The lowest year was 1986 with 16 deaths. \u00a0One of the reasons this year was so low was that there were no large tornado outbreaks, which have increased the number of deaths and injuries in past years. \u00a0This year also had fewer tornadoes than normal, with just 901 through December 27 compared to an average of 1061. \u00a0You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2016\/12\/28\/fewest-tornado-deaths-30-years\/95923092\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/2016_annual_map_torn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9777\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/2016_annual_map_torn-300x215.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/2016_annual_map_torn-300x215.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/2016_annual_map_torn-193x138.gif 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9778\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016-174x138.png 174w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/tornado-counts-0112-2016.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today reported earlier this week that in all 2016 had only 17 tornado deaths during the year. \u00a0This is the lowest in 30 years and the second lowest since accurate records began in 1950. \u00a0The lowest year was 1986 with 16 deaths. \u00a0One of the reasons this year was so low was that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","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=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9779,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}