{"id":95232,"date":"2019-08-24T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/beast-from-the-east-to-bring-icy-weather"},"modified":"2019-08-24T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T18:42:33","slug":"beast-from-the-east-to-bring-icy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/beast-from-the-east-to-bring-icy-weather","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beast from the east\u2019 to bring icy weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beast-from-the-east-to-bring-icy-weather2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called a sudden stratospheric warming event \u2014 and, unlike the name might suggest, the rare phenomenon could spell a burst of bitterly cold weather for Australia and New Zealand over coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If so, it could be the southern hemisphere\u2019s own version of the icy \u201cbeast from the east\u201d that paralysed Europe in 2018, reported the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261051\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Herald<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event kicks off when the temperature of the stratosphere \u2014 that\u2019s 30km to 50km above ground \u2014 over the South Pole climbs by more than 25C. Meteorologists from New Zealand\u2019s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) think it\u2019s likely this is about to happen next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s called a sudden stratospheric warming event \u2014 and, unlike the name might suggest, the rare phenomenon could spell a burst of bitterly cold weather for Australia and New Zealand over coming weeks. If so, it could be the southern hemisphere\u2019s own version of the icy \u201cbeast from the east\u201d that paralysed Europe in 2018, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}