{"id":508,"date":"2016-07-13T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-07-14T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:34:12","slug":"blowing-with-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/13\/blowing-with-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing with the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As written before, it should rain! Badly. Two weeks ago, water-levels were rising again. But as it seems the unusually warm &amp; sunny weather again prevails.<\/p>\n<p>The wind blows from North-East, aka from the continent, blowing over the mountain-range around Stellenbosch. This leads to some amazing pictures again: The wind blows up the range, water vaporizes into clouds and the strong gale pushes the clouds atop where the water quickly evaporates. Magic!<a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_083840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_083840.jpg\" alt=\"20160712_083840\" \/><\/a>The foreground shows the roof of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/maps\/@-33.9285884,18.8662978,18z\">Dept. of Mechanical Engineering<\/a>, the mountain to the right is Stellenbosch Mountain (see <a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/09\/hike-onto-stellenbosch-mountain\/\">entry here<\/a>), straight ahead is Joenkershoek valley (see <a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/02\/joenkershoek-valley\/\">entry here<\/a>), while towards the sun is the mountain pass towards Franschhoek (wineries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokara.co.za\/\">Tokara<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delaire.co.za\/gallery\/\">Delaire Graff<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The day before yesterday, while driving back from Paarl, we were looking into this beautiful sunset,\u00a0 from the R44 seeing Table Mountain 40kms away as clear and close! That&#8217;s how dry and strong this wind is.<a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-512\" src=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain.png\" alt=\"distance_to_table_mountain\" width=\"1786\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain.png 1786w, http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain-300x106.png 300w, http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain-768x271.png 768w, http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/distance_to_table_mountain-1024x361.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1786px) 100vw, 1786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As written before, it should rain! Badly. Two weeks ago, water-levels were rising again. But as it seems the unusually warm &amp; sunny weather again prevails. The wind blows from North-East, aka from the continent, blowing over the mountain-range around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/13\/blowing-with-the-wind\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}