{"id":4833,"date":"2014-11-21T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2014-11-21T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:30:26","slug":"john-zobitz-discusses-weather-patterns-international-business-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/21\/john-zobitz-discusses-weather-patterns-international-business-times\/","title":{"rendered":"John Zobitz discusses weather patterns with International Business Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/11\/ibtimes_100dpi300x75pxl.png\" alt=\"ibtimes_100dpi300x75pxl\" width=\"180\" height=\"45\" \/>Associate\u00a0Professor of Mathematics and environmental science researcher<strong> John Zobitz<\/strong>\u00a0helped to answer the question posed by many in the wake of a recent record-setting snowfall in the Buffalo, N.Y., area\u00a0&#8212; Why is it so cold and snowy in November?<\/p>\n<p>The reason is global warming, according to Zobitz and other scientists studying the Earth&#8217;s climate. Changes in the overall temperature of the planet have affected the jet stream, thereby causing unusual weather.\u00a0\u201cYes, the globe is warming in temperature, but that means some places are warm a lot more, and some places are sometimes colder,\u201d Zobitz said. \u201cWe happen to be on the cold side of that right now, and no matter how you want to slice and dice it, that\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/why-it-so-cold-snowy-november-blame-global-warming-1726485\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0about how changes in the Earth&#8217;s temperature influence weather patterns on the International Business Times website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate\u00a0Professor of Mathematics and environmental science researcher John Zobitz\u00a0helped to answer the question posed by many in the wake of a recent record-setting snowfall in the Buffalo, N.Y., area\u00a0&#8212; Why is it so cold and snowy in November? The reason is global warming, according to Zobitz and other scientists studying the Earth&#8217;s climate. Changes in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3427,1183,3425,1514,3426],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-international-business-times","tag-john-zobitz","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}