{"id":22544,"date":"2018-01-02T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22544"},"modified":"2018-01-02T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:43:49","slug":"steam-devils-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22544","title":{"rendered":"Steam devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A clear morning with a brisk sub-zero wind over the water is ideal for sighting steam devils.<\/p>\n<p>There was only a gentle wind two days ago and the devils were not as grand as on some earlier occasions. Yet, as I get to see them play for only about a half hour every three years, and each devil lasts less than a minute, these ones were worth recording.<\/p>\n<p>Steam devils are vortices in the wind made visible by the droplets of steam fog (just as a dust devils are made visible by tossed-up dirt). On a lake covered by steam fog, the devils can form almost anywhere, but are most easily seen when backlit against a dark background.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A steam devil is seen just as it forms.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22547\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steamdevil171231as.jpg\" alt=\"sub-zero\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, a steam devil can extend tens of metres above the surface.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22546\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steamdevil171231bs.jpg\" alt=\"sub-zero\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best contrast is between the yellow sunlit devil and the dark bluish mountainside.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22545\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steamdevil171231cs2.jpg\" alt=\"sub-zero\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A clear morning with a brisk sub-zero wind over the water is ideal for sighting steam devils. There was only a gentle wind two days ago and the devils were not as grand as on some earlier occasions. Yet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22544\">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-22544","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\/22544","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=22544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22548,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions\/22548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}