{"id":12538,"date":"2017-09-22T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:20:19","slug":"happy-astronomical-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/09\/happy-astronomical-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy astronomical fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While fall started on September 1 for meteorologists and climatologists, today is the first day of astronomical fall. \u00a0Most of the Southeast will be feeling summer-like temperatures for a few more days before cooler air moves into the region in about a week. \u00a0You can read more about why climatologists and astronomers have different definitions of fall from NCEI at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons<\/a> and read more about the autumnal equinox at EarthSky at <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/sun-earth-equinox-explanation-illustrations-ottewell?mc_cid=12c2531300&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/sun-earth-equinox-explanation-illustrations-ottewell?mc_cid=12c2531300&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-214x138.jpg 214w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steve Jurvetson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fall started on September 1 for meteorologists and climatologists, today is the first day of astronomical fall. \u00a0Most of the Southeast will be feeling summer-like temperatures for a few more days before cooler air moves into the region in about a week. \u00a0You can read more about why climatologists and astronomers have different definitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","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=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}