{"id":23203,"date":"2021-12-01T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23203"},"modified":"2021-12-01T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:35:00","slug":"happy-climatological-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/12\/happy-climatological-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy climatological winter!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 1 marks the beginning of climatological winter, which corresponds roughly to the coldest 90-day period in the year across most of the country. Climatologists use December 1 through February 28 (or 29 in a leap year) as the winter period rather than using astronomical seasons. The map below from Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 shows this very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/winter-definitions-map-brettschneider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/winter-definitions-map-brettschneider.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/winter-definitions-map-brettschneider.jpg 680w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/winter-definitions-map-brettschneider-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1 marks the beginning of climatological winter, which corresponds roughly to the coldest 90-day period in the year across most of the country. Climatologists use December 1 through February 28 (or 29 in a leap year) as the winter period rather than using astronomical seasons. The map below from Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 shows this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23203","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\/23203","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=23203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}