{"id":4628,"date":"2011-01-21T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2011-01-22T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T08:19:13","slug":"friday-21st-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 21st January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Meteocat forecast for today.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/210111.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The strong winds forecast materialised in the night and I was woken twice by some hefty gusts. Some of the more brittle trees below us have blown over, but no damage to our house.<\/p>\n<p>The wind isn&#8217;t strictly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tramontane\" target=\"_blank\">tramunata<\/a> now, but a north wind due to squeezed isobars &#8211; we&#8217;re in the middle of three pressure systems. I was glad we went skiing yesterday, since today they were forecasting &#8216;torb&#8217; (nevasca or viento blanco in Spanish), which is a snow\/ice blizzard caused by strong winds. It can cause a temperature drop of over 20C and causes whiteout conditions. We skied in torb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1975\" target=\"_self\">last year<\/a> and the top of the resort was shut as the temperatures (with wind chill) dropped to -50C.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Meteosim forecast for today.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/210111.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/>We considered going out to try and fly, but the weather stations were giving N or NNE in Angles and St Feliu de Pallerols and we can&#8217;t spare the time just to go on the off-chance that it&#8217;s flyable. We open the next conference to presenters on Wednesday and need to get everything ready, so when it&#8217;s not guaranteed flyable, we need to get on with it. Gorgeous sunny day though&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strong winds forecast materialised in the night and I was woken twice by some hefty gusts. Some of the more brittle trees below us have blown over, but no damage to our house. The wind isn&#8217;t strictly tramunata now, but a north wind due to squeezed isobars &#8211; we&#8217;re in the middle of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}