{"id":22269,"date":"2018-04-23T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=22269"},"modified":"2018-04-23T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:13:58","slug":"its-official-this-was-the-snowiest-winter-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2018\/04\/its-official-this-was-the-snowiest-winter-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: This was the snowiest winter on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22270\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-22270 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightining-771x578.png\" alt=\"Lightning\" width=\"771\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightining.png 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightining-336x252.png 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightining-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">National Weather Service<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Weather Service office in Billings released this map this morning, showing where lightning struck \u2014 just as the rain turned to snow.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a miserable day in Billings, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one consolation: we have officially broken the record for snowfall in one winter.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service office in Billings put out an alert at 10:18, saying: &#8220;Wild weather in Billings this morning. We had a clap of thunder as rain changed to snow around 9:16 AM MDT. You can see the single lightning strike on the map below. And&#8230;the Billings Airport has received 0.1&#8243; of snow so far today. The seasonal snowfall total now stands at 103.6&#8243;, making 2017-2018 the snowiest winter in Billings recorded history!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The map is actually shown above. Happy spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a miserable day in Billings, Montana. But there is one consolation: we have officially broken the record for snowfall in one winter. The National Weather Service office in Billings put out an alert at 10:18, saying: &#8220;Wild weather in Billings this morning. We had a clap of thunder as rain changed to snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[653,5354],"class_list":["post-22269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-national-weather-service","tag-snow","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22272,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269\/revisions\/22272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}