{"id":623855,"date":"2010-01-07T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","slug":"%e2%80%99tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/623855","title":{"rendered":"\u2019tis a bit nippy, guvnah! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it&#8217;s about -15 C outside where I live in Boulder, and even the snow looks like it&#8217;s shivering. So I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m happy to share the grief or feel badly about the weather for folks in the UK, who generally don&#8217;t get (metric, I suppose) tons of snow. But then I saw <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg\">this image<\/a> from NASA&#8217;s Earth observing Terra satellite:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2781\/4254627068_8c2dd190e3_o.jpg?w=780\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Holy Haleakala, that&#8217;s <em>gorgeous!<\/em> I won&#8217;t say I&#8217;m exactly glad they got lots of snow, but still, wow. Sorry, my anglic friends, but your suffering has produced this stunning beauty. <\/p>\n<p>The image was taken on January 7, 2010 at around noon local time. The image above has 1 km pixels, but you can also grab the image in higher-res <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.500m.jpg\">500 meter<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.250m.jpg\">250 meter<\/a> versions, too.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/ee4iKXsYRBg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/RW_n7qfhFw8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it&#8217;s about -15 C outside where I live in Boulder, and even the snow looks like it&#8217;s shivering. So I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m happy to share the grief or feel badly about the weather for folks in the UK, who generally don&#8217;t get (metric, I suppose) tons of snow. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Cib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}