{"id":20956,"date":"2021-01-11T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:34:50","slug":"weather-and-climate-activities-to-explore-the-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/01\/weather-and-climate-activities-to-explore-the-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather and climate activities to explore the atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week is the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, the main professional organization for meteorologists and climatologists in the US and beyond. It is all online this year (a shame since we were supposed to be in New Orleans, but that&#8217;s life) so all their activities are available on the web.  They offer a WeatherFest for families which is open to the public. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/wxfest\/?fbclid=IwAR09lN4J-Dv6Whsv2Q9FYuj4p4FK_jm2_ULgE89N5bJJXr0v2-nRTEzazwk\">page<\/a> of weather activities that are fun to try out, such as an activity which demonstrates how weather affects fly balls in baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/01\/baseball.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/01\/baseball.jpg 855w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/01\/baseball-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/01\/baseball-768x622.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, the main professional organization for meteorologists and climatologists in the US and beyond. It is all online this year (a shame since we were supposed to be in New Orleans, but that&#8217;s life) so all their activities are available on the web. They offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":20958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956","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=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}