{"id":9277,"date":"2016-11-25T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T23:56:02","slug":"four-people-in-australia-died-due-to-thunderstorm-related-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/four-people-in-australia-died-due-to-thunderstorm-related-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Four people in Australia died due to thunderstorm-related asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week.\u00a0 You can read more about it in the <em>Capital Weather Gang<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/11\/23\/four-people-are-dead-in-australia-after-a-thunderstorm-caused-thousands-of-asthma-attacks\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm by dry conditions and which then was swept through the community by the gusty winds.\u00a0 You might wonder how something like this could have happened.\u00a0 <em>The Guardian<\/em> has a video and article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/nov\/24\/melbourne-suffers-most-lethal-episode-of-thunderstorm-asthma\">here<\/a> that help to explain how thunderstorms and asthma are linked and discusses previous events. \u00a0Gizmodo.com also explains why it is worse in Melbourne than other places <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2016\/11\/what-is-thunderstorm-asthma-and-why-is-it-worst-in-melbourne\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3571\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3571\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Thomas Bresson, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-229x138.jpg 229w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Thomas Bresson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week.\u00a0 You can read more about it in the Capital Weather Gang here. The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health","category-severe","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","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=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}