{"id":13262,"date":"2011-11-22T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13262"},"modified":"2016-09-17T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:08:59","slug":"my-first-chinook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-first-chinook\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Chinook!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up out east, I was fascinated by the idea of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinook_wind\">chinook<\/a>, a warm wind blowing in from the ocean that would significantly raise temperatures in a very short period of time. I always associated them with Calgary, but it turns out they are more prevalent in Lethbridge!<\/p>\n<p>The temperature started to rise yesterday and the wind to pick up. I was standing outside enjoying the sun when a tenant came up and explained to me that a chinook was rolling in! Today is incredibly windy and the snow is melting very quickly. My tenant says that if I am fortunate I will experience a much more dramatic chinook this winter, with temperatures going from, say, minus 15 in the morning to plus 15 in the afternoon, but even I don&#8217;t I can cross &#8216;experience a chinook&#8217; off my bucket list!<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: chinook is pronounced &#8216;shi-nook&#8217;. The reason for this (and why it&#8217;s Shi-ca-go, not Tchi-ca-go) is the influence of the French-Canadian explorers. We (because I am a French-Canadian explorer) pronounce &#8216;ch&#8217; the way &#8216;sh&#8217; is pronounced in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up out east, I was fascinated by the idea of a chinook, a warm wind blowing in from the ocean that would significantly raise temperatures in a very short period of time. I always associated them with Calgary, but it turns out they are more prevalent in Lethbridge! The temperature started to rise yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}