{"id":7517,"date":"2018-12-20T17:36:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/12\/20\/first-day-of-winter-in-the-northern-hemisphere\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:36:39","slug":"first-day-of-winter-in-the-northern-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/12\/20\/first-day-of-winter-in-the-northern-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/solstice.jpg' title='Solstice'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/solstice.jpg' alt='Solstice' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel and I were in the office this afternoon when I remarked that I think the winter solstice is today. As I looked up the time of the solstice on the internet I could see that winter had just begun only a little over an hour ago. As of December 20, 2018, 3:23 PM Arizona time, we are officially in the winter season.<\/p>\n<p>We just took the dogs out for their last walk before it gets dark here. The temperature on the patio was still up at 68&deg; F, although it will be falling rapidly after dark. We&#8217;re expecting a low of 46&deg; F overnight. <\/p>\n<p>The Northern Hemisphere might be getting a cooler winter this year according to arch-weather guru <em>Joe Bastardi<\/em> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherbell.com\/\">WeatherBELL Analytics<\/a>. I read a recent article with an analysis of El Ni&ntilde;o and La Ni&ntilde;a and some sort of Pacific Decadal Oscillation that we might be in for some really cooler weather in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>So, Damsel and I will be shopping for some warmer winter clothing in the post-Christmas sales. The good news is that the forecast isn&#8217;t so severe as to warrant snow tires or parkas or arctic gear. It&#8217;s Arizona, after all. The forecast for this weekend will be highs in the 70&#8217;s and lows in the mid 40&#8217;s, so the deep freeze isn&#8217;t here yet!<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot above from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeoastronomy.com\/\">Archaeoastronomy<\/a> website. Click for a (slightly) larger image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel and I were in the office this afternoon when I remarked that I think the winter solstice is today. As I looked up the time&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,32,10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}