{"id":7138,"date":"2016-05-21T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2016-05-21T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:25:46","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-reaches-its-lowest-extent-yet-for-this-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-its-lowest-extent-yet-for-this-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic sea ice reaches its lowest extent yet for this date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another climate story related to the Arctic this week is the record-setting low extent of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean for this time of year. \u00a0Bob Henson of <em>WunderBlog<\/em> explains what has been observed this year and what it means for this summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/arctic-sea-ice-goes-far-beyond-record-low-extent-for-may#prclt-kNJemJ1Q\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The abnormally low snow cover which contributed to warm conditions there has also contributed to the forest fires which are affecting Alberta. \u00a0I&#8217;ll say more about that tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7139\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"charctic-5.19.16\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16-182x138.jpg 182w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/charctic-5.19.16.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another climate story related to the Arctic this week is the record-setting low extent of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean for this time of year. \u00a0Bob Henson of WunderBlog explains what has been observed this year and what it means for this summer here. \u00a0The abnormally low snow cover which contributed to warm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","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\/7138","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=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}