{"id":5788,"date":"2016-01-19T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2016-01-19T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:02:05","slug":"cold-and-snow-in-miami-in-1977-nearly-wipes-out-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/cold-and-snow-in-miami-in-1977-nearly-wipes-out-citrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold and snow in Miami in 1977 nearly wipes out citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this date 39 years ago, bitterly cold weather swept south through the Florida peninsula, causing incredible damage to Florida&#8217;s citrus industry and providing a few snow flurries as far south as Miami, although only a trace was reported in the official records. \u00a0The Miami Herald describes it in an article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article55396310.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snow and the low temperatures put Florida&#8217;s citrus and vegetable industry in a death grip. Both were nearly wiped out, and about 150,000 migrant workers around the state lost their jobs &#8211; including 80,000 in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Then-Gov. Reubin Askew declared a state of emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of cold outbreaks in the 1970&#8217;s, much of the citrus industry retreated to southern Florida, and it has only slowly been moving back north again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/orange-tree-ice-OneShotWunder-wunderground.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1842\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/orange-tree-ice-OneShotWunder-wunderground-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Wunderground\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/orange-tree-ice-OneShotWunder-wunderground-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/orange-tree-ice-OneShotWunder-wunderground-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/orange-tree-ice-OneShotWunder-wunderground.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wunderground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date 39 years ago, bitterly cold weather swept south through the Florida peninsula, causing incredible damage to Florida&#8217;s citrus industry and providing a few snow flurries as far south as Miami, although only a trace was reported in the official records. \u00a0The Miami Herald describes it in an article here. &#8220;The snow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","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=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}