{"id":994,"date":"2006-04-12T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2006-04-12T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:36:47","slug":"ice-falling-from-the-sky-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/ice-falling-from-the-sky-in-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Falling from the Sky in Oakland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/timesstar\/localnews\/ci_3697520\">Alameda Times-Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>OAKLAND \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ice falling from the sky might seem unusual, but some Spanish and American scientists say it is becoming a frequent occurrence throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Like the estimated 200-plus-pound chunk that fell Saturday on Bushrod Park, clear ice from the sky has been reported around the world. Big and small ice-falls have happened in China, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Scotland, Hungary, England, India and more than half of the United States \u00e2\u20ac\u201d often in summer and some recorded before aircraft were invented, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>And in each case, no one knows why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of us have been able to come up with a process to determine how it is happening,&#8221; said David Travis, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. &#8220;We&#8217;re really baffled as to what is going on here.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alameda Times-Star: OAKLAND \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ice falling from the sky might seem unusual, but some Spanish and American scientists say it is becoming a frequent occurrence throughout the world. Like the estimated 200-plus-pound chunk that fell Saturday on Bushrod Park, clear ice from the sky has been reported around the world. Big and small ice-falls have happened in China, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Scotland, Hungary, England, India and more than half of the United States \u00e2\u20ac\u201d often in summer and some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[140,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-oakland","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}