{"id":7950,"date":"2016-08-14T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2016-08-14T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:02:00","slug":"its-not-the-heat-its-the-humidity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/its-not-the-heat-its-the-humidity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the heat, it&#8217;s the humidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang of the <em>Washington Post<\/em> had an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/08\/11\/the-entire-eastern-u-s-is-a-wet-blanket\/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&amp;wpmm=1\">article<\/a> earlier this week discussing why the current weather is bringing huge rains to Louisiana and other areas of the central US as well as bringing heat and sweltering weather to the East Coast. \u00a0The maps in this article are a couple of days old, but you can see the predicted rainfalls have verified quite well for the last couple of days. \u00a0You might find the discussion of dew point temperatures useful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/dewpoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7969\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/dewpoint-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"dewpoint\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/dewpoint-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/dewpoint-230x138.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/dewpoint.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang of the Washington Post had an interesting article earlier this week discussing why the current weather is bringing huge rains to Louisiana and other areas of the central US as well as bringing heat and sweltering weather to the East Coast. \u00a0The maps in this article are a couple of days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}