{"id":911,"date":"2010-12-07T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2010-12-07T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:22:28","slug":"its-the-jet-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S THE JET STREAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherimages.org\/data\/imag192.html\">Jet Stream<\/a> to the south is responsible for the deep freeze we are experiencing here on the East Coast of the United States; and the record cold and snowfall covering most of Europe. Many of the areas were not prepared to deal with snow, never having faced the problem before. This snowfall was the worst since 1869 in the Loire River Valley.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-911 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-29-10-22948.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-29-10-22948-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-912\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-912'>\n\t\t\t\trecord snowfall\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-29-10-22958.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-29-10-22958-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-913\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-913'>\n\t\t\t\tchateau de meung under snow\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-27-10-22928.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snow-11-27-10-22928-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-914\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-914'>\n\t\t\t\tswollen river\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A_24hr500bw.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/A_24hr500bw-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-919\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-919'>\n\t\t\t\tDecember 7 2010 , 500mb \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Weather to date is the one thing over which humanity has no control. It effects everything we do, everything. \u00a0I worry that we are so desperate to exert control over everything in our lives that we may cause real problems in an attempt to control our environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movement of the Jet Stream to the south is responsible for the deep freeze we are experiencing here on the East Coast of the United States; and the record cold and snowfall covering most of Europe. Many of the areas were not prepared to deal with snow, never having faced the problem before. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT&#8217;S THE JET STREAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[551,2469],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-jet-stream","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}