{"id":3814,"date":"2015-07-24T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2015-07-24T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:53:07","slug":"nc-the-dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/nc-the-dog-days-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"NC: The &#8220;dog days&#8221; of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina has produced a short article describing the &#8220;dog days&#8221; of summer. \u00a0According to the blog, &#8220;it turns out the dog days are more than just a linguistic turn of phrase. They are a distinct time of year ranging from July 3rd to August 11th (40 days) and correspond to when the star Sirius (aka: the Dog Star, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stardate.org\/nightsky\/constellations\/canis_major\" target=\"_blank\">Canis Major<\/a> constellation) rises with the sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the article, the authors compare the hottest and most humid 40 day period in North Carolina to the astronomical &#8220;dog days&#8221; period. \u00a0For most of the state, the climatological dog days occur earlier than the astronomical dog days.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nc-climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=142&amp;h=5666e5c1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nc-climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=142&amp;h=5666e5c1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/nc-dog-days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3815\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/nc-dog-days-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"nc dog days\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/nc-dog-days-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/nc-dog-days-257x138.jpg 257w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/nc-dog-days.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina has produced a short article describing the &#8220;dog days&#8221; of summer. \u00a0According to the blog, &#8220;it turns out the dog days are more than just a linguistic turn of phrase. They are a distinct time of year ranging from July 3rd to August 11th (40 days) and correspond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","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\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}