{"id":95994,"date":"2019-09-09T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/exceptionally-rare-lightning-storm-stuns-puget-sound"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:04:10","slug":"exceptionally-rare-lightning-storm-stuns-puget-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/exceptionally-rare-lightning-storm-stuns-puget-sound","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exceptionally rare\u2019 lightning storm stuns Puget Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exceptionally-rare-lightning-storm-stuns-puget-sound.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE, Wash. \u2014 There were 2,275 bolts of lightning <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/strong-line-of-thunderstorms-light-up-seattle-skies-postpone-husky-game\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/strong-line-of-thunderstorms-light-up-seattle-skies-postpone-husky-game\" class=\"\">in Saturday\u2019s lightning storm that shocked Puget Sound<\/a>, according to the National Weather Service on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have this much lightning in the lowlands is exceptionally rare,\u201d said Reid Wolcott, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/strong-line-of-thunderstorms-light-up-seattle-skies-postpone-husky-game\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/strong-line-of-thunderstorms-light-up-seattle-skies-postpone-husky-game\" class=\"\">Photos: Lightning fills the skies over the Puget Sound Region<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, Wash. \u2014 There were 2,275 bolts of lightning in Saturday\u2019s lightning storm that shocked Puget Sound, according to the National Weather Service on Sunday. \u201cTo have this much lightning in the lowlands is exceptionally rare,\u201d said Reid Wolcott, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service. MORE | Photos: Lightning fills the skies over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95994","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}