{"id":6012,"date":"2016-02-06T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:16:15","slug":"trees-regardless-of-size-all-break-at-the-same-wind-speed-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/trees-regardless-of-size-all-break-at-the-same-wind-speed-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trees, regardless of size, all break at the same wind speed. Here\u2019s why.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Science<\/em> magazine posted an interesting story online about wind damage to trees, \u00a0In the article they claim that research has shown that trees generally all break at wind speeds of 94 mph or higher, although trees can lose branches or tip over at lower speeds, especially if the ground is wet and their root systems are compromised. \u00a0Breakage can also occur from ice or snow loading, as we&#8217;ve seen in some recent ice storms here in the Southeast. \u00a0According to the research, this relationship seems to hold true regardless of the species of tree. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I believe this or not. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6013\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jibi44, Commons Wikimedia via Science\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jibi44, Commons Wikimedia via Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science magazine posted an interesting story online about wind damage to trees, \u00a0In the article they claim that research has shown that trees generally all break at wind speeds of 94 mph or higher, although trees can lose branches or tip over at lower speeds, especially if the ground is wet and their root systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","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=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}