{"id":10553,"date":"2017-03-26T20:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2017-03-26T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:38:02","slug":"how-climate-influences-weather-six-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/how-climate-influences-weather-six-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How climate influences weather: six questions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People frequently mix up weather and climate when they discuss the impacts of climate change. For example, you can still get a snowstorm (weather) as the winters get warmer (climate). \u00a0The <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> has a good simple explanation of some of the differences in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/Inhabit\/2017\/0301\/How-climate-influences-weather-six-questions\/Does-climate-change-cause-extreme-weather-events\">article<\/a> from early March. \u00a0As you&#8217;ll see, the relationship between weather events and changes in climate is complicated and climate changes can affect weather in ways that are not always straightforward.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5401\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cloud-halo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5401\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cloud-halo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cloud-halo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cloud-halo-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cloud-halo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: William M. Connolley at the English language Wikipedia via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People frequently mix up weather and climate when they discuss the impacts of climate change. For example, you can still get a snowstorm (weather) as the winters get warmer (climate). \u00a0The Christian Science Monitor has a good simple explanation of some of the differences in this article from early March. \u00a0As you&#8217;ll see, the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}