{"690476":{"#nid":"690476","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The emerging weather threat facing the South","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs spring wears on, there is hope the worst of this season will soon pass, and that relief is coming. In Florida, the rainy season begins on May 15, followed soon after by the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. But there\u0027s not much wet weather on the horizon in the Sunshine State \u2014 or, anywhere across the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We just can\u0027t seem to shake this,\u0022 said\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003E Zachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Georgia Tech. Until the current patterns shift, he said, \u0022the risk is going to remain high.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs spring wears on, there is hope the worst of this season will soon pass, and that relief is coming. In Florida, the rainy season begins on May 15, followed soon after by the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. But there\u0027s not much wet weather on the horizon in the Sunshine State \u2014 or, anywhere across the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We just can\u0027t seem to shake this,\u0022 said\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003E Zachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Georgia Tech. Until the current patterns shift, he said, \u0022the risk is going to remain high.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-05-26 19:23:30","changed_gmt":"2026-05-27 13:44:44","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Washington Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2026\/05\/15\/why-wildfire-risk-southeast-remains-big-problem\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"789","name":"Drought"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}