{"id":549,"date":"2008-06-20T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T01:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2008-06-20T02:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T01:18:45","slug":"desert-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Desert haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week or so has been uncharacteristically mild. Well, when I say mild, I mean it&#8217;s only been in the low to mid-30s celsius as opposed to well above 40C. In fact it&#8217;s been quite pleasant. However, it was all down to the shamal, a cold wind that whips through the region now and again, stirring up sand particles and bringing fog to this desert city on the Gulf coast. You don&#8217;t believe me? Take a look at these photos of the city as seen from the causeway leading to Marina Mall:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-550 aligncenter\" title=\"imag0022\" src=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0022-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-552\" title=\"imag0025\" src=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0025-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then compare it with this, taken a few months ago close to the same spot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-551\" title=\"imag0031\" src=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imag0031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alas, the respite is over and the long, hot summer is almost upon us. I imagine few of us are truly prepared for what awaits over the next two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week or so has been uncharacteristically mild. Well, when I say mild, I mean it&#8217;s only been in the low to mid-30s celsius as opposed to well above 40C. In fact it&#8217;s been quite pleasant. However, it was all down to the shamal, a cold wind that whips through the region now and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}