{"id":16495,"date":"2019-01-27T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2019-01-27T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T21:58:32","slug":"the-polar-vortex-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/01\/the-polar-vortex-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polar Vortex is coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard the phrase &#8220;Polar Vortex&#8221; a lot the last couple of weeks, as parts of the US are in a deep freeze with air coming down from the Arctic. While we won&#8217;t see temperatures here in the Southeast that are nearly as cold as those in MN and WI, it&#8217;s going to be the coldest air of the year so far. Here is a good explanation of what the polar vortex is (spoiler&#8211;it&#8217;s a totally natural thing) from a television meteorologist in Tallahassee FL at <em>WCTV<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/content\/news\/Cold-air-may-stick-around-for-a-while-504824381.htm\">https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/content\/news\/Cold-air-may-stick-around-for-a-while-504824381.htm<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5196\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex-212x138.jpg 212w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/PolarVortex.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard the phrase &#8220;Polar Vortex&#8221; a lot the last couple of weeks, as parts of the US are in a deep freeze with air coming down from the Arctic. While we won&#8217;t see temperatures here in the Southeast that are nearly as cold as those in MN and WI, it&#8217;s going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16495","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\/16495","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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16496,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}