{"id":20717,"date":"2016-12-19T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2016-12-19T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:47:47","slug":"snow-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20717","title":{"rendered":"Snow on the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently sitting at Hale P\u014dhaku on the side of the mauna waiting for the snowplows to get us access.  We are all looking at the webcams and the drifts of snow in front of our facility wondering if we will make it up today.<\/p>\n<p>It does not look like it was a huge amount of snow, rather the high winds re-sculpted the snow into drifts against the buildings and the road cuts.  The result is some impressive snow drifts.  The snowplow crews are reportedly making slow progress.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime all we have are the webcam images&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20717 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=20719'><img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161219HokuKea-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hoku Kea\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20719\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20719'>\n\t\t\t\tA shot from a UKIRT webcam of the Hoku Kea student observatory\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=20720'><img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161219HeavyIce-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Heavy Ice\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20720\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20720'>\n\t\t\t\tHeavy ice on the weather mast of Keck Observatory, December 19, 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=20721'><img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161219ParkingLot-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Snow Drifts in Hawaii\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20721\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20721'>\n\t\t\t\tSubstantial snow drifts in front of the Keck Telescope, December 19, 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=20718'><img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161219FreshSnow-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Fresh Snow\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20718\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20718'>\n\t\t\t\tFresh snow atop Mauna Kea blankets the ground behind Keck\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently sitting at Hale P\u014dhaku on the side of the mauna waiting for the snowplows to get us access. We are all looking at the webcams and the drifts of snow in front of our facility wondering if we will make it up today. It does not look like it was a huge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow on the Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[50,88,519],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20725,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions\/20725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}