{"id":312,"date":"2014-06-23T08:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:19","slug":"why-isnt-the-hottest-weather-on-the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/06\/why-isnt-the-hottest-weather-on-the-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t the hottest weather on the longest day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EarthSky<\/em> blog has a good description of why the hottest days of summer lag behind the maximum sunlight. It has to do with thermal inertia, the fact that it takes time for the sun to warm up land and water. \u00a0For the same reason, the hottest temperature in an average sunny day is not at noon but several hours later, in mid- to late afternoon. \u00a0For their explanation of this phenomenon, click <a title=\"Seasonal temperature lag\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/why-isnt-the-longest-day-of-the-year-the-hottest-day?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=acaf2b593a-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-acaf2b593a-393619445\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarthSky blog has a good description of why the hottest days of summer lag behind the maximum sunlight. It has to do with thermal inertia, the fact that it takes time for the sun to warm up land and water. \u00a0For the same reason, the hottest temperature in an average sunny day is not at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}