{"id":38198,"date":"2014-08-08T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=38198"},"modified":"2014-08-08T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:01:37","slug":"forecasters-decrease-number-of-hurricanes-expected-during-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/08\/08\/forecasters-decrease-number-of-hurricanes-expected-during-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecasters Decrease Number Of Hurricanes Expected During 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/08\/Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38202\" alt=\"Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/08\/Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/08\/Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/08\/Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/08\/Outlook2014Updatefinalwithdate.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/news\/forecasters-update-2014-hurricane-season\/\">From Houston Public Media:\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration,\u00a0has revised the number of named storms to between 7 and 12, and that maybe 2 of those named storms could be major, with winds greater than 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>An average season can see up to 12 named storms.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, says overall atmospheric conditions just don&#8217;t favor a lot of storm development this year. It led NOAA to update its forecast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/162174956&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s some below average temperatures across the tropical Atlantic, which are exceptionally cool, relative to the remainder of the global tropics,&#8221; says Feltgen. &#8220;And we still believe there&#8217;s an El Nino forming, and that&#8217;s likely to really show itself as we get deeper into August, and continue on into October.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Feltgen says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/images\/hgx\/hurricanes\/HurricaneWorkshop14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">hurricane preparations<\/a>\u00a0should not be based on a seasonal outlook, as Houstonians discovered in 1983 when just four storms were predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you didn&#8217;t make your preparation plans that was a big mistake, because the first storm out of the gate was a major hurricane named Alicia, that went into the Houston area in late August,&#8221;\u00a0Feltgen says.<br \/>\n,<br \/>\nTo date, the Atlantic Basin has produced three tropical depressions, two of which where able to intensify to hurricane status: Arthur and Bertha. Arthur made two landfalls in North Carolina and Nova Scotia on July 4th, while Bertha landed in the Domician Republic on July 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane season runs through November 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Houston Public Media:\u00a0 NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration,\u00a0has revised the number of named storms to between 7 and 12, and that maybe 2 of those named storms could be major, with winds greater than 110 mph. An average season can see up to 12 named storms. Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist with the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38205,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198\/revisions\/38205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}