{"id":5826,"date":"2016-01-22T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2016-01-22T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:52:23","slug":"why-does-snow-make-it-sound-so-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/why-does-snow-make-it-sound-so-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does snow make it sound so quiet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been out in an area covered by a significant snowfall, you may have noticed the &#8220;hush&#8221; that often occurs. \u00a0Some of the quietness is probably due to the lack of traffic on nearby streets, but snow actually has a sound-deadening effect. \u00a0You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/uknow.uky.edu\/content\/science-behind-snows-serenity\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> at the University of Kentucky News blog.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5827\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/snowy-mill.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5827\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/snowy-mill-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: https:\/\/www.forestwander.com\/2009\/12\/gristmill-winter-snowfall-front\/ via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/snowy-mill-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/snowy-mill-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/snowy-mill.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/www.forestwander.com\/2009\/12\/gristmill-winter-snowfall-front\/ via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been out in an area covered by a significant snowfall, you may have noticed the &#8220;hush&#8221; that often occurs. \u00a0Some of the quietness is probably due to the lack of traffic on nearby streets, but snow actually has a sound-deadening effect. \u00a0You can read more about it here at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}