{"id":22021,"date":"2016-01-13T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:03:14","slug":"earliest-named-storm-in-the-central-pacific-hurricane-pali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/earliest-named-storm-in-the-central-pacific-hurricane-pali\/","title":{"rendered":"Earliest named storm in the Central Pacific: Hurricane Pali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jeff Masters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/comment.html?entrynum=3222\">Wunderblog<\/a>, &#8220;The earliest named storm on record in the Central Pacific, Hurricane Pali, formed on January 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The storm is out in the middle of the ocean, west of Kiribati:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-13-at-4.59.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-13-at-4.59.57-PM-610x338.png?resize=604%2C335\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-13 at 4.59.57 PM\" width=\"604\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22023\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason this storm formed off season is a combination of high sea surface temperatures because of global warming and, on top of this, extra high sea surface temperatures because of El Nino.  In a sense, this year is preview of what things will be like all the time, more or less, as an &#8220;average&#8221; globally-warmed year catches up to an El Ni\u00f1o year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jeff Masters at Wunderblog, &#8220;The earliest named storm on record in the Central Pacific, Hurricane Pali, formed on January 7.&#8221; The storm is out in the middle of the ocean, west of Kiribati: The reason this storm formed off season is a combination of high sea surface temperatures because of global warming and, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/earliest-named-storm-in-the-central-pacific-hurricane-pali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earliest named storm in the Central Pacific: Hurricane Pali<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1190,2430,1192],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Jb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}