{"id":245,"date":"2009-09-29T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=245"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:10:19","slug":"first-freezing-night-in-the-great-smokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2009\/09\/29\/first-freezing-night-in-the-great-smokies\/","title":{"rendered":"First freezing night in the Great Smokies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.outragegis.com\/d\/6783-2\/adc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>Overnight the temperature dropped to 25\u00c2\u00b0 F at the Newfound Gap weather station, elevation 5,000 ft. Mt LeConte at 6400 ft above sea level recorded a low temperature of 31\u00c2\u00b0 F.\u00c2\u00a0 The slight warming at 1,400 ft higher in elevation is caused by a temperature inversion that most frequently happens in autumn mornings.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest temperature recored at Mt. LeConte for September 29 was 24\u00c2\u00b0 F and that happened in 2003. The coldest night ever recorded since 1988 was -22\u00c2\u00b0 F, which occurred last February 4.<\/p>\n<p>Station reports for 7:30 am, September 28 &#8211; 7:30 am, September 29:<\/p>\n<pre>STATION             ELEV    HIGH    LOW     PCPN    SNOW DEPTH\r\nSUGARLAND CENTER    1600     75      45     0.00\r\nNEWFOUND GAP        5000     62      25     0.00\r\nCADES COVE          1900     73      44     0.00\r\nOCONALUFTEE         2040     79      42     0.00\r\nMOUNT LECONTE       6400     57      31     0.01\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/weather\/grsm\">http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/weather\/grsm<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight the temperature dropped to 25\u00c2\u00b0 F at the Newfound Gap weather station, elevation 5,000 ft. Mt LeConte at 6400 ft above sea level recorded a low temperature of 31\u00c2\u00b0 F.\u00c2\u00a0 The slight warming at 1,400 ft higher in elevation is caused by a temperature inversion that most frequently happens in autumn mornings. The lowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-smoky-mountains","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}