{"id":1652,"date":"2015-01-04T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2015-01-04T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:55:43","slug":"five-myths-about-weather-forecasting-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/five-myths-about-weather-forecasting-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Five myths about weather forecasting&#8211;Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang at the <em>Washington Post<\/em> had an excellent article about weather forecasting myths in this week&#8217;s column (link <a title=\"WP on 5 myths about meteorologists\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/five-myths-about-weather-forecasting\/2015\/01\/02\/e49e8950-8b86-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). \u00a0Maybe you&#8217;re guilty of propagating some of these myths yourself. \u00a0Do you ever say that meteorologists are usually wrong? \u00a0Or use the Farmers&#8217; Almanac to get weather predictions months in advance? Or say that record low temperatures show that global warming is not a problem? \u00a0If so, you should read the article and see how weather forecasts have improved significantly in recent years but still can&#8217;t predict the weather months in advance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1653\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Yellow_umbrella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1653\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Yellow_umbrella-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Yellow_umbrella-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Yellow_umbrella.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Yellow_umbrella-208x138.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post had an excellent article about weather forecasting myths in this week&#8217;s column (link here). \u00a0Maybe you&#8217;re guilty of propagating some of these myths yourself. \u00a0Do you ever say that meteorologists are usually wrong? \u00a0Or use the Farmers&#8217; Almanac to get weather predictions months in advance? Or say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","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\/1652","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=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}