{"id":88,"date":"2013-12-10T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-07-22T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:24:01","slug":"seasonal-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/2013\/12\/10\/seasonal-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/AP\/faces\/pages\/read\/Home.jsp?person=b.hoskins&amp;_adf.ctrl-state=9l0x5i96_3&amp;_afrRedirect=4144277778511397\">Professor Sir Brian Hoskins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US has been suffering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-25288175\">icy weather and snow storms<\/a> in recent days.\u00a0 This image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">NOAA<\/a> shows the surface air temperature anomaly for the week 2-8 December \u2013 that is the difference from the mean temperature for this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It was very cold over North America (where we get lots of news from!) but very warm in Eurasia and parts of the Arctic (where we don\u2019t!). This is the sort of thing the atmosphere can do on short timescales through having a particular pattern of weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/files\/2013\/12\/2-8-Dec-temps2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/files\/2013\/12\/2-8-Dec-temps2.gif\" alt=\"2-8 Dec temps\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Professor Sir Brian Hoskins The US has been suffering from icy weather and snow storms in recent days.\u00a0 This image from NOAA shows the surface air temperature anomaly for the week 2-8 December \u2013 that is the difference from the mean temperature for this time of the year. It was very cold over North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/climate-at-imperial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}