{"id":22198,"date":"2021-08-01T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=22198"},"modified":"2021-08-01T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:11:23","slug":"forbes-the-top-10-weather-and-climate-misconceptions-2021-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/08\/forbes-the-top-10-weather-and-climate-misconceptions-2021-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: The Top 10 Weather And Climate Misconceptions &#8211; 2021 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I frequently hear people who don&#8217;t know much about meteorology comment on weather-related phenomena and get things wrong. Dr. Shepherd of UGA&#8217;s Atmospheric Sciences also hears these kinds of comments and wrote up his 2021 list of the top ten weather and climate misconceptions. You can read them at <em>Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2021\/08\/01\/the-top-10-weather-and-climate-misconceptions2021-edition\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true&amp;fbclid=IwAR0CUNuDaaI5xj9JCt6bquAigS-h3dCpy38tH-NM6aLd3b-et2ZEiVbmHqg\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning8_-_NOAA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning8_-_NOAA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning8_-_NOAA.jpg 633w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning8_-_NOAA-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Lightning8_-_NOAA-178x138.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I frequently hear people who don&#8217;t know much about meteorology comment on weather-related phenomena and get things wrong. Dr. Shepherd of UGA&#8217;s Atmospheric Sciences also hears these kinds of comments and wrote up his 2021 list of the top ten weather and climate misconceptions. You can read them at Forbes here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22198","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\/22198","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=22198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22199,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions\/22199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}