{"id":1879,"date":"2020-12-10T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=137386"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:38:38","slug":"is-2020s-record-breaking-hurricane-season-what-the-future-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/10\/is-2020s-record-breaking-hurricane-season-what-the-future-holds\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 2020&#8217;s Record-Breaking Hurricane Season What the Future Holds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Tina Gerhardt<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;Globally, tropical cyclones are about 25 percent more likely to be at major-hurricane intensity now than four decades ago. The chances of rapid intensification in the 1980s was about one in 100 in the Atlantic. Nowadays, the chances are 1 in 20.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/sierra-20200827-lauralandfall-wb.jpg?itok=828jUGQa\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Cameron, Louisiana, in the early hours of August 27, 2020. (Photo courtesy of NOAA\/GOES-East)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/10\/is-2020s-record-breaking-hurricane-season-what-the-future-holds\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Gerhardt \u201cGlobally, tropical cyclones are about 25 percent more likely to be at major-hurricane intensity now than four decades ago. The chances of rapid intensification in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}