{"id":9880,"date":"2017-02-08T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2017-02-08T21:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:58:49","slug":"how-can-we-predict-the-climate-when-weather-forecasts-are-so-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/how-can-we-predict-the-climate-when-weather-forecasts-are-so-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How can we predict the climate when weather forecasts are so uncertain?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on projections of future climate today to a group of farmers and other interested folk in LaGrange, GA. \u00a0One of the things we discussed in the talk is how weather and climate forecasts are similar and how they are different, because they are really designed to do different things even though they are built on the same physical principles. \u00a0An article\u00a0in <em>The Conversation<\/em> that was published in January addresses some of this information too. \u00a0You can read it at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-can-we-predict-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-weather-forecasts-are-so-uncertain-70835\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-can-we-predict-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-weather-forecasts-are-so-uncertain-70835<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1280\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-209x138.png 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on projections of future climate today to a group of farmers and other interested folk in LaGrange, GA. \u00a0One of the things we discussed in the talk is how weather and climate forecasts are similar and how they are different, because they are really designed to do different things even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10015,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/10015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}