{"id":30004,"date":"2026-05-19T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=30004"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:13:12","slug":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you like literary discussions about weather and climate, you might enjoy this essay from <em>Literary Hub<\/em> on conversations about the weather and the words we use to describe it. It also describes how our conversations about the weather have changed over time.  You can read it at <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-weather\/\">https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-weather\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/venice-king-tide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/venice-king-tide-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flooded square in venice\" class=\"wp-image-9148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/venice-king-tide.jpg 683w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/venice-king-tide-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/venice-king-tide-92x138.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Acqua alta&#8221; (high water) caused by high tides and strong winds brought flooding to Venice, Italy on Saturday.  Source: Marco Bertarelli\/AFP\/Getty via BBC Weather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like literary discussions about weather and climate, you might enjoy this essay from Literary Hub on conversations about the weather and the words we use to describe it. It also describes how our conversations about the weather have changed over time. You can read it at https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-weather\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30004","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\/30004","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=30004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30005,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions\/30005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}