{"id":7853,"date":"2016-08-04T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:24:20","slug":"annual-lightning-fatalities-in-the-u-s-trend-1940-to-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/annual-lightning-fatalities-in-the-u-s-trend-1940-to-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Lightning Fatalities in the U.S. \u2013 Trend 1940 to 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Robbins of <em>iWeatherNet.com<\/em> posted some interesting statistics on trends in lightning fatalities earlier this week. \u00a0They show a significant decrease in lightning deaths from 1940 to the present. \u00a0I think a lot of this can be attributed to the public information that has been stressed by the National Weather Service and other meteorologists. \u00a0But there still have been several lightning deaths in the Southeast in the past month, so be careful and &#8220;when thunder roars, go indoors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7854\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Chris Robbins, iWeatherNet.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities-199x138.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/lightning-fatalities.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Chris Robbins, iWeatherNet.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Robbins of iWeatherNet.com posted some interesting statistics on trends in lightning fatalities earlier this week. \u00a0They show a significant decrease in lightning deaths from 1940 to the present. \u00a0I think a lot of this can be attributed to the public information that has been stressed by the National Weather Service and other meteorologists. \u00a0But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","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=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}