{"id":6949,"date":"2016-05-05T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2016-05-05T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:34:41","slug":"impacts-of-lake-michigan-on-local-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/impacts-of-lake-michigan-on-local-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacts of Lake Michigan on local farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I grew up in Grand Rapids MI downwind of Lake Michigan, I know how much the lake can affect local temperature and weather conditions in the area. \u00a0<em>AgWeb<\/em> has a nice write-up of the impacts of the lake on farmers in northern Indiana, which is also affected by the lake, especially in winter and spring when winds are off the lake. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/i-80-planting-tour-how-lake-michigan-affects-planting-weather-for-indiana-farmers-naa-betsy-jibben\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0In summer, with winds primarily from the south, lake effects are much smaller. \u00a0Here in the Southeast, our biggest regional drivers of climate are the mountains and the coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Below I&#8217;ve put a map of annual minimum temperatures and plant hardiness zomes to show the effect of the lake on temperatures in western Michigan. \u00a0Areas near the lake do not get as cold as areas farther inland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/michigan-plant-hardiness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6950\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/michigan-plant-hardiness-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"michigan plant hardiness\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/michigan-plant-hardiness-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/michigan-plant-hardiness-107x138.jpg 107w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/michigan-plant-hardiness.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I grew up in Grand Rapids MI downwind of Lake Michigan, I know how much the lake can affect local temperature and weather conditions in the area. \u00a0AgWeb has a nice write-up of the impacts of the lake on farmers in northern Indiana, which is also affected by the lake, especially in winter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6949","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\/6949","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6951,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}