{"id":14760,"date":"2018-06-16T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2018-06-16T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:40:08","slug":"how-far-away-is-that-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/how-far-away-is-that-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How far away is that lightning?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember learning as a kid that if you see lightning and count the number of seconds until you hear thunder, then for every five seconds it takes, the lightning is one mile away. How good is this estimation really? It turns out that based on simple physics, it is actually pretty good. You can read more at <em>EarthSky<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/how-far-away-lightning-thunder\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/how-far-away-lightning-thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3029\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1-237x138.jpg 237w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Atlanta_Lightning_Strike_edit1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: David Selby\/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember learning as a kid that if you see lightning and count the number of seconds until you hear thunder, then for every five seconds it takes, the lightning is one mile away. How good is this estimation really? It turns out that based on simple physics, it is actually pretty good. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14760","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\/14760","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=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14761,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/14761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}