{"id":21746,"date":"2010-01-12T23:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T06:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:21:36","slug":"pineapple-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/pineapple-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without getting into technical meteorological terms, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pineapple_express\">pineapple express<\/a> is an atmospheric phenomenon that brings a heck of a lot of rain to the Pacific coast. In BC, this also means that the mountains get a lot of snow. Once over the Rockies and emptied of its moisture, the pineapple express becomes a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pineapple_express\">Chinook wind<\/a> in the prairies that can dramatically raise the temperature.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s really warm and wet here in Campbell River this week, averaging eight or nine degrees. I&#8217;m ready to pull out my shorts (well, almost) and am increasingly sick and tired of the spoiled Campbell Riverites complaining about the rain and how &#8216;cold&#8217; it is. I feel like shipping a few of them out east for a week. In Ottawa, for example, it&#8217;s minus thirteen right now while in Campbell River it is PLUS EIGHT. As for Dawson City, cripes, it&#8217;s MINUS FORTY-ONE.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Riverites really need to travel more&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without getting into technical meteorological terms, a pineapple express is an atmospheric phenomenon that brings a heck of a lot of rain to the Pacific coast. In BC, this also means that the mountains get a lot of snow. Once over the Rockies and emptied of its moisture, the pineapple express becomes a Chinook wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,1126,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}