{"id":5117,"date":"2015-11-22T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2015-11-22T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:59:33","slug":"five-cold-weather-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/five-cold-weather-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Five cold-weather myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With widespread frost expected across northern and central Alabama, Georgia and points farther east and the cold winter season upon us, you might find this blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalforests.org\/blog\/cold-weather-myths?utm_source=Tree-mail&amp;utm_campaign=336bbc3c47-Novtreemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f91e58cba-336bbc3c47-30486549\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> from the National Forests blog on myths about cold weather interesting. \u00a0For example, did you know that you do not lose most of your heat from the top of your head? \u00a0Your head loses only about 10 percent of all heat, which is about the same proportion as the area of the head&#8217;s skin. \u00a0But cold weather can make extremities like ears and noses more susceptible to frostbite, so cover them up when the weather gets really nippy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Snow-covered_mittens_4229023687.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5259\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Snow-covered_mittens_4229023687-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Snow-covered_mittens_4229023687-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Snow-covered_mittens_4229023687-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Snow-covered_mittens_4229023687.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nationalforests.org\/blog\/cold-weather-myths?utm_source=Tree-mail&#038;utm_campaign=336bbc3c47-Novtreemail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_6f91e58cba-336bbc3c47-30486549<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With widespread frost expected across northern and central Alabama, Georgia and points farther east and the cold winter season upon us, you might find this blog post from the National Forests blog on myths about cold weather interesting. \u00a0For example, did you know that you do not lose most of your heat from the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","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\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}