{"id":18121,"date":"2019-10-11T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18121"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:23:23","slug":"ncco-why-do-the-leaves-change-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/10\/ncco-why-do-the-leaves-change-color\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCO: Why do the leaves change color?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every fall, deciduous trees in the Southeast (and elsewhere in the country) change color. Every year, we get asked why. The North Carolina Climate Office has a good description at <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=302&amp;h=5666e5c1\">https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=302&amp;h=5666e5c1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will this year&#8217;s drought impact the leaf color in the Southeast? <em>WSB<\/em> addresses that in a recent article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgauradio.com\/news\/local\/long-hot-dry-summer-likely-impact-leaf-viewing\/htsoHZieNTWbQzxuUBAkOL\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure-214x138.jpg 214w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/maple-leaf-structure.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steve Jurvetson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every fall, deciduous trees in the Southeast (and elsewhere in the country) change color. Every year, we get asked why. The North Carolina Climate Office has a good description at https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=302&amp;h=5666e5c1. Will this year&#8217;s drought impact the leaf color in the Southeast? WSB addresses that in a recent article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18121","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\/18121","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=18121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18122,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions\/18122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}