{"id":5096,"date":"2015-11-09T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2015-11-09T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:50:59","slug":"the-impacts-of-elevation-on-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/the-impacts-of-elevation-on-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"The impacts of elevation on climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how the local topography affects your local climate conditions? \u00a0Jake Crouch of NOAA&#8217;s Climate.gov has a nice blog post which describes how mountains and valleys affect climate. \u00a0Even though the mountains in the Southeast are not as tall as those in the West, they do provide quite a bit of climate variation, including the impacts of today&#8217;s wedge of cold air which is coming down the east side of the Appalachians into northeast Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the &#8220;Beyond the Data&#8221; article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/highs-and-lows-climate\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/highs-and-lows-climate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5097\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/black-mountains-nc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5097\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/black-mountains-nc-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Ken Thomas, Commons Wikipedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/black-mountains-nc-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/black-mountains-nc-221x138.jpg 221w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/black-mountains-nc.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ken Thomas, Commons Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how the local topography affects your local climate conditions? \u00a0Jake Crouch of NOAA&#8217;s Climate.gov has a nice blog post which describes how mountains and valleys affect climate. \u00a0Even though the mountains in the Southeast are not as tall as those in the West, they do provide quite a bit of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","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=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}