{"id":29001,"date":"2025-07-21T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29001"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:24:08","slug":"the-colorful-mystery-of-green-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/07\/the-colorful-mystery-of-green-thunderstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colorful Mystery of Green Thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever seen a green sky? I can recall a few. Most often they are seen during severe weather, especially when hail is present. Here is an interesting story and explanation for where green skies come from: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ametsoc.org\/2025\/07\/16\/the-colorful-mystery-of-green-thunderstorms\/\">The Colorful Mystery of Green Thunderstorms &#8211; The Front Page<\/a>, published by the American Meteorological Society blog earlier this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2025\/07\/aviles-green-sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2025\/07\/aviles-green-sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2025\/07\/aviles-green-sky.jpg 506w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2025\/07\/aviles-green-sky-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen a green sky? I can recall a few. Most often they are seen during severe weather, especially when hail is present. Here is an interesting story and explanation for where green skies come from: The Colorful Mystery of Green Thunderstorms &#8211; The Front Page, published by the American Meteorological Society blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001","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=29001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29003,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001\/revisions\/29003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}