{"id":12221,"date":"2017-10-10T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12221"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:26:02","slug":"theyll-just-have-garlic-breath-in-the-morning-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/10\/theyll-just-have-garlic-breath-in-the-morning-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ll Just Have Garlic Breath In The Morning, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/07\/theyll-just-have-garlic-breath-in-the-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">painted ladies<\/a> we photographed earlier this summer? This makes them look sick:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>A lacy, cloudlike pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 110-kilometre-wide wave of butterflies, forecasters say.Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service said he first thought flocks of birds were making the pattern he saw on the radar\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1627037083\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, but the cloud was headed northwest with the wind, and migrating birds would be southbound in October.<\/p>\n<p>He asked birdwatchers on social media what it might be, and by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1627037084\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0had his answer: People reported seeing a loosely spaced net of painted lady butterflies drifting with the wind across the area.<\/p>\n<p>Schlatter said the colours on the radar image are a result of the butterflies\u2019 shape and direction, not their own colours.<\/p>\n<p>Midwestern radar stations occasionally pick up butterflies, but Schlatter believes it\u2019s a first for Denver.\u00a0<i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2017\/10\/05\/massive-wave-of-butterflies-lights-up-denver-weather-radar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2017\/10\/05\/massive-wave-of-butterflies-lights-up-denver-weather-radar.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507760413179000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNovLuxSLKkJ8TQTFd2ShSV3xtoA\"><b>thestar.com<\/b><\/a>]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/news\/world\/2017\/10\/05\/massive-wave-of-butterflies-lights-up-denver-weather-radar\/butterfly_radar_jpg.jpg.size.custom.crop.1086x520.jpg?resize=800%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/6\/1704785\/-Here-is-an-ocean-of-butterflies-70-miles-wide-captured-on-radar-over-Colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/6\/1704785\/-Here-is-an-ocean-of-butterflies-70-miles-wide-captured-on-radar-over-Colorado&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507760413179000&amp;usg=AFQjCNECvKo83uv8R5xEJc2FxMhzYVslsQ\">Via\u00a0<\/a>Walter Einenkel on\u00a0<i><b>The Daily Kos<\/b><\/i>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the painted ladies we photographed earlier this summer? This makes them look sick: A lacy, cloudlike pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 110-kilometre-wide wave of butterflies, forecasters say.Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service said he first thought flocks of birds were making \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/10\/theyll-just-have-garlic-breath-in-the-morning-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12223,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}