{"id":24949,"date":"2018-10-21T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24949"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T00:03:46","slug":"western-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24949","title":{"rendered":"Western sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The western sky is associated with sunsets &#8212; also grand haloes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This evening&#8217;s sky had a group of haloes. They were not the best I had seen, but they were eminently satisfactory. There was a modest 22\u00b0 halo, an upper tangential arc, and (best of all) a grand circumzenithal arc.<\/p>\n<p>The western sky before sunset shows haloes. The circumzenithal arc is near the centre top.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24952\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/circumzenithalarc181021as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The circumzenithal arc varied in intensity and colour quality, but this is one of its better views. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24951\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/circumzenithalarc181021bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The western sky is associated with sunsets &#8212; also grand haloes.\u00a0 This evening&#8217;s sky had a group of haloes. They were not the best I had seen, but they were eminently satisfactory. There was a modest 22\u00b0 halo, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24949\">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-24949","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\/24949","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=24949"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}