{"id":243,"date":"2014-06-04T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:38","slug":"live-lightning-map-shows-cold-front-sagging-into-northern-ga-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/06\/live-lightning-map-shows-cold-front-sagging-into-northern-ga-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Live lightning map shows cold front sagging into northern GA tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating web site which collects live lightning data is showing a cold front sagging south into northern Georgia and Alabama tonight. \u00a0The lightning is occurring in thunderstorms which are forming along the front. \u00a0This could cause some locally heavy rain, gusty winds and lightining tonight and mark a return to rainier conditions in the next few days. \u00a0In addition, there is a potential for severe weather on Thursday with unstable air moving into the area<\/p>\n

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Lightning strikes on the map are color coded so that the most recent strikes are the brightest and fade with time. \u00a0This is a volunteer network which was started in Germany and has expanded to the US and other parts of the world. \u00a0You can find the real time map (still in Beta testing mode) as well as archives at www.LightningMaps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating web site which collects live lightning data is showing a cold front sagging south into northern Georgia and Alabama tonight. \u00a0The lightning is occurring in thunderstorms which are forming along the front. \u00a0This could cause some locally heavy rain, gusty winds and lightining tonight and mark a return to rainier conditions in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}