{"id":27952,"date":"2024-09-21T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T02:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27952"},"modified":"2024-09-21T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T02:10:26","slug":"happy-astronomical-fall-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/09\/happy-astronomical-fall-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy astronomical fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fall equinox is occurring this year on September 22, 2024, at 8:44 am EDT. On the equinox, the  sun appears directly above the earth&#8217;s equator, and days and nights are almost (but not exactly) of equal length. You can read more about the equinox at <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox\/\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox\/<\/a>. Of course, climatological fall started on September 1, so we are already partway through the autumn season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"562\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg 562w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-151x138.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall equinox is occurring this year on September 22, 2024, at 8:44 am EDT. On the equinox, the sun appears directly above the earth&#8217;s equator, and days and nights are almost (but not exactly) of equal length. You can read more about the equinox at https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox\/. Of course, climatological fall started on September 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27952","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=27952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27953,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27952\/revisions\/27953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}