{"id":142,"date":"2010-08-31T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-12-26T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:49:39","slug":"cumulus-on-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Mountain cumulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a small child playing on a summer beach on the West Arm, it was a source of frustration for me that as the Sun moved into the west, it was often blocked by clouds that had grown on the ridges above me. Why did I often get shade just when I wanted to swim? The fact that I later understood the meteorology did not diminish the childhood disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of the local\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/weather\/cumulus\/index.html\">cumulus clouds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a view from beside the airport at Nelson of cumulus clouds growing over Mt. Nelson (Elephant Mountain) and the ridge above the North Shore.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elephantmtcumulus100830a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elephantmtcumulus100830a.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/elephantmtcumulus100830a-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a small child playing on a summer beach on the West Arm, it was a source of frustration for me that as the Sun moved into the west, it was often blocked by clouds that had grown on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}