{"id":7160,"date":"2016-05-24T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:53:35","slug":"earliest-snow-melt-on-record-observed-in-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/earliest-snow-melt-on-record-observed-in-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Earliest snow melt on record observed in Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>WunderBlog<\/em> post for yesterday has a story about the incredibly early snow melt that occurred this year in Barrow, Alaska. \u00a0This is usually one of the last places in the US to lose its snow cover. \u00a0But this year, due to unrelenting heat, the snow cover disappeared on May 10, a full ten days earlier than the previous record from 2002 (records have been kept there for 73 years). \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/arctic-circle-earliest-snowmelt-ever#prclt-3jeE1T2P\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/arctic-circle-earliest-snowmelt-ever#prclt-3jeE1T2P<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7161\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NOAA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/barrowobservatory.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WunderBlog post for yesterday has a story about the incredibly early snow melt that occurred this year in Barrow, Alaska. \u00a0This is usually one of the last places in the US to lose its snow cover. \u00a0But this year, due to unrelenting heat, the snow cover disappeared on May 10, a full ten days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","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=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}