{"id":11013,"date":"2017-05-06T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2017-05-06T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:34:31","slug":"what-is-a-wake-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/what-is-a-wake-low\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a “wake low”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2014 on April 30\u00a0a morning storm came through Athens and dropped a large oak tree between my garage and my neighbor’s house. \u00a0It barely missed the garage but clipped a corner of the neighbor’s house. I had moved my car out of the garage less than half an hour earlier, which was lucky because our other car was trapped until we got the tree removed two days later.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it did not do much damage, but it left us without power for four days, so I had to dump out most of what was in the fridge and mend fences (literally) with the neighbor, who had just moved in a few weeks before. \u00a0It destroyed my CoCoRaHS rain gauge and damaged my beautiful Japanese maple tree in the side yard, too. \u00a0The storm was called a “wake low”. \u00a0Earlier this week a similar storm caused widespread power outages and falling trees northwest of Atlanta. \u00a0You might be interested to find out what kind of storms they are and how they differ from other kinds of severe weather. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd explains in a recent Forbes.com<\/em> blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In 2014 on April 30\u00a0a morning storm came through Athens and dropped a large oak tree between my garage and my neighbor’s house. \u00a0It barely missed the garage but clipped a corner of the neighbor’s house. I had moved my car out of the garage less than half an hour earlier, which was lucky because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}