{"id":5798,"date":"2016-01-20T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2016-01-20T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:03:18","slug":"big-storm-tiny-magic-the-science-of-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/big-storm-tiny-magic-the-science-of-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big storm, tiny magic: The science of snowflakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today parts of the Southeast are experiencing freezing rain, sleet and snow in some locations. \u00a0This storm is expected to move up the East Coast and bring blizzard conditions to the Washington DC area. \u00a0Paul Huttner of <em>Minnesota Public Radio<\/em> posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/updraft\/2016\/01\/the-science-of-snowflakes-stellar-dendrites-plates-and-needles\/\" target=\"_blank\">entry<\/a> on his blog this week reminding us to look for the beauty of snowflakes as we contemplate the wintry conditions that will affect travel in many areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5493\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CC BY-NC 3.0 Alexey Kljatov\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/snow10.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC BY-NC 3.0 Alexey Kljatov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today parts of the Southeast are experiencing freezing rain, sleet and snow in some locations. \u00a0This storm is expected to move up the East Coast and bring blizzard conditions to the Washington DC area. \u00a0Paul Huttner of Minnesota Public Radio posted an entry on his blog this week reminding us to look for the beauty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","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=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}