{"id":1473,"date":"2015-04-08T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2015-04-09T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:24:50","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/2015\/04\/08\/rain-rain-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Rain Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April showers bring May flowers right? Well how exactly do we measure such a thing? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-is-rainfall-measured\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScientificAmerican-Twitter+%28Content%3A+Global+Twitter+Feed%29\">This<\/a> article describes this processes. But why do we care? Right now throughout Oregon many cities are experiencing a drought while others are not. For cities that are, how much rain do you normally get this time of year? How many inches of rain would you need to catch up? For those that are not experiencing a drought, how much rain are you experiencing? These are great questions to ask your students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-is-rainfall-measured\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScientificAmerican-Twitter+%28Content%3A+Global+Twitter+Feed%29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1487\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/files\/2015\/04\/january-rain-portland-300x169.png\" alt=\"january-rain-portland\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/252\/files\/2015\/04\/january-rain-portland-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/252\/files\/2015\/04\/january-rain-portland-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/252\/files\/2015\/04\/january-rain-portland.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April showers bring May flowers right? Well how exactly do we measure such a thing? This article describes this processes. But why do we care? Right now throughout Oregon many cities are experiencing a drought while others are not. For cities that are, how much rain do you normally get this time of year? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[330,1324,204919,24433,109463,197034],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-ecology","category-elementary-school","category-geology","category-high-school","category-middle-school","tag-climate-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QfXa-nL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}