{"id":642,"date":"2014-08-24T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=642"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:16:00","slug":"what-are-crepuscular-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/what-are-crepuscular-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"What are crepuscular rays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Jekyll Island last week attending the Georgia Environmental Conference and saw this beautiful scene outside my hotel window one morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/jekyll-sunrise-8-21-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-643\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/jekyll-sunrise-8-21-2014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"jekyll sunrise 8-21-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/jekyll-sunrise-8-21-2014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/jekyll-sunrise-8-21-2014-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/jekyll-sunrise-8-21-2014.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rays which appear to be stretching out from the horizon are called <em>crepuscular rays<\/em>, and are actually beams of sunlight shining through breaks in clouds below the horizon. \u00a0 You can often see crepuscular rays during the day when strong sunlight shines from behind clouds, especially when the air is dusty or especially humid, making the light more visible. \u00a0Here is a nice example from Commons Wikimedia (a great source for images you can use in presentations).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02-296x138.jpg 296w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link to the image above is available <a title=\"Commons crepuscular ray photo\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Crepuscular_rays#mediaviewer\/File:Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Jekyll Island last week attending the Georgia Environmental Conference and saw this beautiful scene outside my hotel window one morning: The rays which appear to be stretching out from the horizon are called crepuscular rays, and are actually beams of sunlight shining through breaks in clouds below the horizon. \u00a0 You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}