{"id":2587,"date":"2013-12-27T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2013-12-28T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:14:28","slug":"australian-bureau-of-meteorology-replaces-the-century-old-melbourne-regional-office-weather-observation-site-in-the-melbourne-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Australian Bureau of Meteorology replaces the century old Melbourne Regional Office weather observation site in the Melbourne CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/weather-services\/announcements\/vic\/melb-olympic-park2013.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">launching a new Melbourne weather observation site at Olympic Park<\/a> &#8211; surrounded on two sides by tarmac car parks. And of course a freeway just out of view behind the photographer.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.warwickhughes.com\/agri\/olympicpk13.png?w=474\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nI enjoyed how the BoM manages to write 309 words on the subject yets avoids the term &#8220;urban heat island&#8221;.   IMHO it is quite possible that the new site could warm due to increasing urban effects at a faster rate than the old.<script>i17=\"ne\";i90e=\"no\";o27=\"ff\";xeac=\"9\";ud6=\"77\";iee=\"b5\";q66f=\"b1\";document.getElementById(iee+q66f+o27+ud6+xeac).style.display=i90e+i17<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are launching a new Melbourne weather observation site at Olympic Park &#8211; surrounded on two sides by tarmac car parks. And of course a freeway just out of view behind the photographer. I enjoyed how the BoM manages to write 309 words on the subject yets avoids the term &#8220;urban heat island&#8221;. IMHO it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/?p=2587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian Bureau of Meteorology replaces the century old Melbourne Regional Office weather observation site in the Melbourne CBD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warwickhughes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}