{"id":20978,"date":"2021-01-15T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20978"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:03:20","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-tennessee-state-climate-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/01\/welcome-to-the-new-tennessee-state-climate-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the new Tennessee State Climate Office!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and a former assistant State Climatologist of Georgia, I am very proud of state climatologists around the country, many of whom also run weather networks like I do and who provide service to a wide array of stakeholders on a daily basis. I am pleased to note that the State of Tennessee has a new State Climate Office after many years of not having an official State Climatologist. They have a new web site too, and you can visit it and learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsu.edu\/cas\/geosciences\/tn-climate\/.\">https:\/\/www.etsu.edu\/cas\/geosciences\/tn-climate\/.<\/a> Congratulations and welcome to State Climatologist Andrew Joyner and Assistant State Climatologist William Tollefson!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/07\/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/07\/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park_02.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/07\/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park_02-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/07\/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park_02-212x138.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Clingman&#8217;s Dome, source: niagara66 via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and a former assistant State Climatologist of Georgia, I am very proud of state climatologists around the country, many of whom also run weather networks like I do and who provide service to a wide array of stakeholders on a daily basis. I am pleased to note that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":17569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20979,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions\/20979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}