{"id":14699,"date":"2018-06-07T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:17:43","slug":"the-strange-things-meteorologists-and-engineers-see-while-maintaining-weather-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/the-strange-things-meteorologists-and-engineers-see-while-maintaining-weather-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Strange Things Meteorologists and Engineers See While Maintaining Weather Instruments&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new interim director of the Georgia Weather Network, I&#8217;ve already heard some interesting stories about the critters technicians find inside their weather station equipment boxes. Here&#8217;s a story from <em>The Weather Channel<\/em> about some of the even stranger things folks have found at or near weather stations around the country. Be careful when you open that door! Read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/news\/2018-06-04-strange-things-weather-instrument-maintenance\">https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/news\/2018-06-04-strange-things-weather-instrument-maintenance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14700\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/moose-at-weather-station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14700\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/moose-at-weather-station-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/moose-at-weather-station-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/moose-at-weather-station-234x138.jpg 234w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/moose-at-weather-station.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moose tangles with weather instruments in Anchorage, Alaska, in September 2016.<br \/>(NWS-Anchorage, Alaska)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new interim director of the Georgia Weather Network, I&#8217;ve already heard some interesting stories about the critters technicians find inside their weather station equipment boxes. Here&#8217;s a story from The Weather Channel about some of the even stranger things folks have found at or near weather stations around the country. Be careful when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","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\/14699","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=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14701,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/14701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}