{"id":7435,"date":"2016-06-19T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2016-06-19T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:27:12","slug":"the-science-of-mammatus-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/the-science-of-mammatus-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of mammatus clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA published a new column in <em>Forbes.com<\/em> this week about mammatus clouds, the beautiful and sometimes scary clouds that form on the undersides of severe thunderstorms (and occasionally in other places as well). \u00a0You can read his blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/06\/18\/beautiful-and-scary-at-once-the-science-of-mammatus-clouds\/#56c5436215ed\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The Cloud Appreciation Society also has some great pictures of mammatus clouds at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\/\">https:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7436\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Mammatus_Clouds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7436\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Mammatus_Clouds-300x200.png\" alt=\"Source: Zachary Houri, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Mammatus_Clouds-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Mammatus_Clouds-207x138.png 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Mammatus_Clouds.png 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Zachary Houri, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA published a new column in Forbes.com this week about mammatus clouds, the beautiful and sometimes scary clouds that form on the undersides of severe thunderstorms (and occasionally in other places as well). \u00a0You can read his blog post here. \u00a0The Cloud Appreciation Society also has some great pictures of mammatus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","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=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}