{"id":29641,"date":"2026-01-26T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29641"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:56:33","slug":"7-times-crazy-weather-changed-the-course-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/7-times-crazy-weather-changed-the-course-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Times Crazy Weather Changed the Course of History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are interested in history and how weather may have impacted it, here is a good summary of seven times in history that the weather had an impact on what happened. Readers Digest describes events like the retreat of the Spanish Armada from England in 1588 and Napoleon&#8217;s invasion of Russia in 1812 as historical events affected by bad weather. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/list\/times-weather-changed-history\/\">https:\/\/www.rd.com\/list\/times-weather-changed-history\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-171x138.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in history and how weather may have impacted it, here is a good summary of seven times in history that the weather had an impact on what happened. Readers Digest describes events like the retreat of the Spanish Armada from England in 1588 and Napoleon&#8217;s invasion of Russia in 1812 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29641","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=29641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29642,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29641\/revisions\/29642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}