{"id":169,"date":"2007-03-12T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-03-12T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T15:50:00","slug":"we-have-weather-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"We have weather records!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p>A minor thing, to be sure&#8230;but among the very last bits I wanted for the final edit was some fact-checking on actual weather conditions for the time and place (southeastern Massachusetts, April-August 2004, to be precise). I have been going INSANE trying to find archived weather data!! I don&#8217;t need a lot of detail&#8211;I just wanted basic max-min-precip information, so I would be sure I didn&#8217;t say there were unseasonably cold temperatures when the locale was having a heat wave, or have a long scene outdoors when the locale had two and a half inches of rain on that date. I FINALLY found a source for basic weather station records, for free. (I was ready to pay for them!! But I didn&#8217;t need to, after all).<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the stuff that bogs you down! I just hated the idea of writing, say, that it was raining on May 12th, and have a reader think, &#8220;hey, Wednesday, May 12, 2004 was my wedding day and I&#8217;ll never forget it, it hit 88 degrees that day!&#8221; (It did.) And I do have several long outside scenes, which, if was raining, I at least want to say so.<\/p>\n<p>Back to work! Oh&#8230;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www7.ncdc.noaa.gov\/IPS\/getcoopstates.html\">NOAA Record of Climatological Observations<\/a>, if any other writers are seeking this data, for the U.S. anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minor thing, to be sure&#8230;but among the very last bits I wanted for the final edit was some fact-checking on actual weather conditions for the time and place (southeastern Massachusetts, April-August 2004, to be precise). I have been going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}