{"id":4497,"date":"2015-09-23T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2015-09-23T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:22:10","slug":"meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorological versus astronomical seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I&#8217;ve been asked what is the difference between astronomical seasons and meteorological seasons. \u00a0Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a nice simple write-up that explains the difference at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EarthSky also has a good description of what the autumnal equinox is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4498\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"equinox-globe\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-151x138.jpg 151w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I&#8217;ve been asked what is the difference between astronomical seasons and meteorological seasons. \u00a0Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a nice simple write-up that explains the difference at\u00a0https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons. EarthSky also has a good description of what the autumnal equinox is at\u00a0https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-september-equinox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","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\/4497","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=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}