{"id":25843,"date":"2010-08-11T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/11\/maybe-oil-spills-reduce-hurric\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:56:19","slug":"maybe-oil-spills-reduce-hurric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/maybe-oil-spills-reduce-hurric\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe oil spills reduce hurricanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, probably not, although I did receive my first <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/an_interview_with_jennifer_jac.php#c2718562\">BP Oil Spill denialist comment<\/a> this morning.  Nonetheless, we have had very little in the way of storms that might develop into hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The best I can do for you now is Tropical Depression FIVE, which is sitting in the Gulf and heading for New Orleans, where it will be a very bad storm with heavy rain and wind &#8230; an actual &#8220;tropical storm&#8221; &#8230; but not enough of a problem to do much other than remember to close the windows and cancel the soft ball game or whatever one does out doors for entertainment in August in Coastal Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>TD Five is likely to turn into an actual tropical storm by tomorrow mid day or afternoon, and will reach landfall and move inland in a few days, dissipating well before next Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, probably not, although I did receive my first BP Oil Spill denialist comment this morning. Nonetheless, we have had very little in the way of storms that might develop into hurricanes. The best I can do for you now is Tropical Depression FIVE, which is sitting in the Gulf and heading for New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/maybe-oil-spills-reduce-hurric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe oil spills reduce hurricanes?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1190],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6IP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843"}],"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=25843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}