{"id":29556,"date":"2025-12-23T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29556"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:39:42","slug":"how-climate-change-is-affecting-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/12\/how-climate-change-is-affecting-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate change is affecting Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, Christmas is shaping up to be one of the warmest on record across a large part of the United States, although here in the Southeast we may miss setting a new record by a few degrees.  Still, I am planning on raking my yard on Christmas Eve in shorts and a T-shirt this year with temperatures well into the 70s. We don&#8217;t expect to see these warm temperatures occur every year, but with a climate that is getting warmer over time, we can expect warmer temperatures to occur more often in the future. <em>The Week<\/em> had an <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/science\/climate-change-affecting-christmas-traditions-trees-snow-reindeer\">interesting article <\/a>this week talking about other impacts a warmer climate is likely to have on both the trees we decorate and the gifts we give. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Christmas_Tree_in-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Christmas_Tree_in-snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Christmas_Tree_in-snow.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Christmas_Tree_in-snow-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Christmas_Tree_in-snow-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Christmas is shaping up to be one of the warmest on record across a large part of the United States, although here in the Southeast we may miss setting a new record by a few degrees. Still, I am planning on raking my yard on Christmas Eve in shorts and a T-shirt this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29556","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\/29556","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=29556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29557,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29556\/revisions\/29557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}