{"id":24899,"date":"2022-11-06T17:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24899"},"modified":"2022-11-06T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T22:45:51","slug":"why-do-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/11\/why-do-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This time of year, many newspapers and magazines post stories about why the leaves change color in the fall. Many of you may already know, but on the off-chance that you are not familiar with the process, here is a good short discussion from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a41838359\/why-do-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall\/?source=nl&amp;utm_source=nl_pop&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;date=110622&amp;utm_campaign=nl29595757&amp;user_email=49e3c4b6fa4cc9d63382a5c55bedcb77fb6fc86d6d2733a0646c6d78e9d8145d&amp;utm_term=AAA%20--%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> that describes how weather changes the strength and timing of the peak color. I hope you are enjoying the colors now, since windy conditions later in the week may blow a lot of the remaining leaves away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves.jpg 418w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves-96x138.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Nicholas A. Tonnelli via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year, many newspapers and magazines post stories about why the leaves change color in the fall. Many of you may already know, but on the off-chance that you are not familiar with the process, here is a good short discussion from Popular Mechanics that describes how weather changes the strength and timing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24899","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\/24899","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=24899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24900,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions\/24900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}