{"id":5855,"date":"2016-01-25T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:17:51","slug":"conversation-with-willis-swint-coop-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/conversation-with-willis-swint-coop-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with Willis Swint, NWS cooperative observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Georgia&#8217;s longest weather observers, Willis Swint of Jonesboro, was profiled in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article this weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/local\/sunday-conversation-with-willis-swint\/np9HT\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0He recently received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the National Weather Service for over 50 years of daily weather measurements.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful for the six decades of service that Mr. Swint has provided to the country by faithfully taking weather observations every day at his feed store. \u00a0We all depend on these observations to monitor the climate for droughts, keep track of chill hours and growing degree days, and trace the changes in climate over time. \u00a0These folks perform an invaluable service to all of us at little or no cost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5856\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/SwintPix-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5856\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/SwintPix-2-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/SwintPix-2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/SwintPix-2-182x138.jpg 182w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/SwintPix-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Georgia&#8217;s longest weather observers, Willis Swint of Jonesboro, was profiled in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article this weekend here. \u00a0He recently received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the National Weather Service for over 50 years of daily weather measurements. We are grateful for the six decades of service that Mr. Swint has provided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}