{"id":13364,"date":"2018-01-03T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13364"},"modified":"2018-01-03T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:29:00","slug":"why-snowflakes-come-in-different-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/why-snowflakes-come-in-different-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why snowflakes come in different shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t expect to see snowflakes today, other parts of the Southeast are currently experiencing wintry weather including snow and freezing rain. Here is an interesting story from <em>EarthSky<\/em>\u00a0on how snowflakes get their shapes. There&#8217;s a lot more variety than you might think besides the fluffy dendrites we see in Christmas cards! Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/how-do-snowflakes-get-their-shape?mc_cid=eab19dd86a&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5493\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC BY-NC 3.0 Alexey Kljatov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t expect to see snowflakes today, other parts of the Southeast are currently experiencing wintry weather including snow and freezing rain. Here is an interesting story from EarthSky\u00a0on how snowflakes get their shapes. There&#8217;s a lot more variety than you might think besides the fluffy dendrites we see in Christmas cards! Read it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13364","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\/13364","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=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13365,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions\/13365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}