{"id":19061,"date":"2016-12-05T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19061"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:56:34","slug":"katabatic-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19061","title":{"rendered":"Katabatic wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A recurring theme of mine over the years has been that of a katabatic wind: the gentle stream of air\u00a0that flows\u00a0down a mountainside overnight. Indeed, I wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16501\">fifty years ago<\/a>,\u00a0again this year with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18755\">23 cm\/s<\/a>, and with many postings in between.<\/p>\n<p>Barney Gilmore, who has a grand view across\u00a0the North Arm of the Lake, today sent me a wonderful picture illustrating a katabatic wind. It was taken in the light of dawn\u00a0and shows smoke (from slash burning) being transported down the mountain slope and out over the Lake by a katabatic wind.<\/p>\n<p>I am really impressed with such\u00a0compelling illustrations of a physical process as this.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19062\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/katabaticflow161128sBG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Barney Gilmore&#8217;s picture is used with permission<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A recurring theme of mine over the years has been that of a katabatic wind: the gentle stream of air\u00a0that flows\u00a0down a mountainside overnight. Indeed, I wrote about it fifty years ago,\u00a0again this year with 23 cm\/s, and with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-19061","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\/19061","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=19061"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19070,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19061\/revisions\/19070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}