{"id":841,"date":"2014-12-20T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:49:34","slug":"the-science-behind-weather-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"The Science Behind Weather Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/climate-weather\/atmospheric\/10-scientifically-sound-weather-superstitions.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f0\/Groundhog_Day%2C_Punxsutawney%2C_2013-2.jpg\/320px-Groundhog_Day%2C_Punxsutawney%2C_2013-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Grounghog Day from Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.\" width=\"285\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignore the shadow of the lowland marmot at your peril! (Or not). Photo by Anthony Quintano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weather. It can destroy homes and harvests, shut down entire regions and re-sculpt coastlines in a matter of hours. It\u2019s small wonder we tend to be a bit superstitious about the subject, or that we&#8217;re loath to let go of the received wisdom of family, friends and the <em>Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe those old wives tales contain a kernel of truth. Sometimes there\u2019s a reason to the rhyme, as I reveal in this list of \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/climate-weather\/atmospheric\/10-scientifically-sound-weather-superstitions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">10 Scientifically Sound Weather Superstitions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather. It can destroy homes and harvests, shut down entire regions and re-sculpt coastlines in a matter of hours. It\u2019s small wonder we tend to be a bit superstitious about the subject, or that we&#8217;re loath to let go of the received wisdom of family, friends and the Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac. Then again, maybe those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Science Behind Weather Superstitions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,63,4,31,415,3,30],"tags":[961,963,962,965,966,274,25,964,490,364,960],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-culture","category-history","category-how-to","category-psychology","category-science","category-top-10","tag-clouds","tag-cows","tag-crickets","tag-ice","tag-lightning","tag-moon","tag-nature","tag-pine-cones","tag-sun","tag-urban-legend","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}