{"id":13579,"date":"2018-01-27T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13579"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T02:45:23","slug":"sun-missing-from-europe-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/sun-missing-from-europe-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun missing from Europe this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>The Guardian<\/em>, this winter has been one of the least sunny winters in history in Europe, with many places only receiving a few hours of direct sunlight this month. That is a small fraction of what they normally get. I can remember very cloudy winters in western Michigan when I was growing up due to lake effect clouds from Lake Michigan, but this covers a much wider area, including most of the European continent. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/19\/aint-no-sunshine-winter-darkest-europe?CMP=share_btn_tw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13580\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/paris-in-clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13580\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/paris-in-clouds-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/paris-in-clouds-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/paris-in-clouds-230x138.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/paris-in-clouds.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris had only 10 hours of sunshine in the first half of January. Photograph: Christophe Simon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Guardian, this winter has been one of the least sunny winters in history in Europe, with many places only receiving a few hours of direct sunlight this month. That is a small fraction of what they normally get. I can remember very cloudy winters in western Michigan when I was growing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579","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=13579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13581,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions\/13581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}