{"id":2144,"date":"2015-03-01T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2015-03-01T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:12:13","slug":"happy-spring-climatologically-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/03\/happy-spring-climatologically-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy spring (climatologically speaking)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of what your calendar says, for climatologists spring begins on March 1. \u00a0If you are interested in why we use March 1 instead of the astronomical date, which this year is March 20, you can read about it in this blog post from the Illinois State Climatologist, Jim Angel, at <a title=\"Illinois SC on why spring starts March 1\" href=\"https:\/\/climateillinois.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/23\/will-spring-ever-get-here-yes-it-will\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/climateillinois.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/23\/will-spring-ever-get-here-yes-it-will\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides, I know it is spring since I found the first dandelion of the year in my lawn today!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2198\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/why-does-spring-start-on-mar-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2198\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/why-does-spring-start-on-mar-1-300x168.png\" alt=\"Source: Jim Angel, IL State Climatologist\" width=\"504\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/why-does-spring-start-on-mar-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/why-does-spring-start-on-mar-1-247x138.png 247w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/why-does-spring-start-on-mar-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jim Angel, IL State Climatologist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of what your calendar says, for climatologists spring begins on March 1. \u00a0If you are interested in why we use March 1 instead of the astronomical date, which this year is March 20, you can read about it in this blog post from the Illinois State Climatologist, Jim Angel, at https:\/\/climateillinois.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/23\/will-spring-ever-get-here-yes-it-will\/ Besides, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}