{"id":207,"date":"2008-03-28T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/weather\/thar-she-blows"},"modified":"2008-03-28T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T17:47:28","slug":"thar-she-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Thar she blows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent question from readers of the blog, and anyone with whom I have contact back home, is &#8220;How&#8217;s the weather?&#8221;  Certainly, being resident on a continent worthy of the reputation of &#8220;coldest, windiest place on Earth&#8221; makes on cognisant of the forces of nature.  I haven&#8217;t yet been clever enough to write some code to provide a continuous weather feed from our monitoring equipment, but what I can do is to update the blog every now and then with some of our info.  To start off, I&#8217;ve bugged Santjie, our meteorologist, to give me our &#8216;records&#8217; for the year so far:<\/p>\n<div> Highest temperature recorded this year<\/div>\n<div>11 January:   -1.3 \u00c2\u00b0C<\/div>\n<div>\nLowest absolute temperature (not including wind-chill)<\/div>\n<div>10 March:  -20.5 \u00c2\u00b0C<\/div>\n<div>\nLowest apparent temperature (including wind-chill)<\/div>\n<div>Estimated at -43 \u00c2\u00b0C (Canadian Tables)<\/div>\n<div>\nGreatest wind-speed was recorded during our last storm (yesterday!)<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0 77 knots (146 km\/h or 40.6 m\/sec)<\/div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent question from readers of the blog, and anyone with whom I have contact back home, is &#8220;How&#8217;s the weather?&#8221; Certainly, being resident on a continent worthy of the reputation of &#8220;coldest, windiest place on Earth&#8221; makes on cognisant of the forces of nature. I haven&#8217;t yet been clever enough to write some code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}