{"id":1238,"date":"2009-03-29T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2009-06-12T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:44:50","slug":"tiny-pre-made-snowballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Tiny, Pre-Made Snowballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballw.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1238]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1240\" title=\"snowballw\" src=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballw.jpg 495w, https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballw-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballsw1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1238]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1241\" title=\"snowballsw1\" src=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballsw1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballsw1.jpg 495w, https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snowballsw1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{this was really fun to eat}<br \/>\nphotos taken March 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the curious: These darling oddities came from the sky. A reader shed scientific light on the subject when he sent me this email:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a meteorologist whose interests include how ice precipitation is formed in clouds. It turns out that what you&#8217;ve got is a very heavy shower of graupel. Graupel is a fancy name for the particle that forms when supercooled water droplets collect on an ice or snow crystal (riming) until the crystal is completely hidden. I&#8217;ve never seen such a heavy fall of graupel at the surface, but graupel is quite common inside summer rainclouds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{this was really fun to eat} photos taken March 25, 2009 For the curious: These darling oddities came from the sky. A reader shed scientific light on the subject when he sent me this email: &#8220;I&#8217;m a meteorologist whose interests include how ice precipitation is formed in clouds. It turns out that what you&#8217;ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5849,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}