{"id":1949,"date":"2014-04-11T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2014-09-20T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:28:02","slug":"hurricane-season-forecast-colorado-state-university-predicts-below-average-activity-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/hurricane-season-forecast-colorado-state-university-predicts-below-average-activity-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Season Forecast: Colorado State University Predicts Below-Average Activity in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iAlert.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1954\" title=\"Hurricane Image\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/506_Earlg15b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"320\" \/ rel=\"nofollow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/506_Earlg15b.jpg 569w, https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/506_Earlg15b-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Phillip J.\u00a0Klotzbach\u00a0and Dr. William Gray of\u00a0Colorado State University (CSU) have issued their annual Hurricane Season Forecast calling for below average activity for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane forecast calls for a total of nine <a title=\"2014 Hurricane Names\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/2014-hurricane-names-2014-national-hurricane-center-tropical-cyclone-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">named storms,<\/a> three hurricanes and one major hurricane (<a title=\"Hurricane strength categories\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/saffir-simpson-hurricane-wind-scale\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Category 3 or higher<\/a>) for the Atlantic Ocean. This forecast is below the long-term average of 12 <a title=\"2014 Hurricane Names\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/2014-hurricane-names-2014-national-hurricane-center-tropical-cyclone-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">named storms<\/a>, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes each season.<\/p>\n<p>CSU tropical forecasters consider two main reasons for the lower than average 2014 hurricane season:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cooler-than-average water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Likelihood of at least a moderate El Nino developing later this summer or fall<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Phillip J.\u00a0Klotzbach\u00a0and Dr. William Gray of\u00a0Colorado State University (CSU) have issued their annual Hurricane Season Forecast calling for below average activity for 2014. The hurricane forecast calls for a total of nine named storms, three hurricanes and one major hurricane (Category 3 &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/hurricane-season-forecast-colorado-state-university-predicts-below-average-activity-in-2014\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[455,454,96,39,197,28,452,97,453,414],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-articles","tag-alantic-hurricane","tag-atlantic-hurrican-season","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-names","tag-hurricane-season","tag-hurricanes","tag-seasonal-forecast","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-storm-forecast","tag-tropical-storms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}