{"id":6683,"date":"2016-04-09T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2016-04-09T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:10:58","slug":"otherworldly-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/otherworldly-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Otherworldly clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my Facebook feed today from the World Meteorological Organization was this i<span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">ncredible photo taken in Alexandra, New Zealand, on Thursday. The thick layer of high cirrostratus cloud combined with some lenticular clouds &#8211; which are caused by a strong northwest flow over the Alps &#8211; create an eerie spectacle, which is illuminated by the morning sun. Thanks to MetService New Zealand. Photo credit to VicsclicksNZ.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6684\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6684\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Source: VicsclickNZ via World Meteorological Organization on Facebook\" width=\"523\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds-191x138.jpg 191w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/VicsclickNZ-cows-and-lenticular-clouds.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: VicsclickNZ via World Meteorological Organization on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my Facebook feed today from the World Meteorological Organization was this incredible photo taken in Alexandra, New Zealand, on Thursday. The thick layer of high cirrostratus cloud combined with some lenticular clouds &#8211; which are caused by a strong northwest flow over the Alps &#8211; create an eerie spectacle, which is illuminated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","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=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}