{"id":4917,"date":"2015-10-27T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2015-10-27T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:38:52","slug":"atacama-desert-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/10\/atacama-desert-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Atacama Desert in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atacama Desert in Chile, normally one of the driest places on Earth, was recently photographed covered by millions of pink mallows.\u00a0 Heavy rains in March provided some areas with up to seven years&#8217; worth of rain in 12 hours.\u00a0 You can see pictures and read a description <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/27\/chile-atacama-desert-mallow-flowers\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#DdYYZChrmsqL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 While the story does not say so, it is likely that the current El Ni\u00f1o, which was developing at the time the rains occurred, most likely contributed to the rain storms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4918\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/pink-atacama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4918\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/pink-atacama-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Image: MARIO RUIZ\/EPA via Mashable\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/pink-atacama-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/pink-atacama.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/pink-atacama-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: MARIO RUIZ\/EPA via Mashable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atacama Desert in Chile, normally one of the driest places on Earth, was recently photographed covered by millions of pink mallows.\u00a0 Heavy rains in March provided some areas with up to seven years&#8217; worth of rain in 12 hours.\u00a0 You can see pictures and read a description here.\u00a0 While the story does not say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-el-nino-and-la-nina","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}