{"id":98,"date":"2009-05-17T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-02-27T21:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:35:34","slug":"mountain-wind-51609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2009\/05\/17\/mountain-wind-51609\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Wind 5\/16\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about hiking up to the top of the Sandias this weekend but a quick check of the weather put an end to that thinking, primarily because of the forecast for high winds.<\/p>\n<p>Where we live, at the edge of a canyon, that usually means that the winds will really be high, and if that&#8217;s the case, they will probably be so high that the tram won&#8217;t run as well. It&#8217;s difficult to capture the effect of a really strong wind, but one of the trees in the image seems to say it well.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99\" title=\"mountainwind516s\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mountainwind516s.jpg\" alt=\"mountainwind516s\" width=\"954\" height=\"524\" \/><br \/>\nThe curious thing about the canyon cool air is that sometimes it rolls over the mountain like the edge of a down comforter, just hanging on the top of the mountain, leaving about 95% of the slope clear below. I suspect that the cool moist air pours over onto the dry side of the Sandias and evaporates.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a day to finish up the garden and almost all of the flowers in the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the day was ending I shot this panorama of the cloud on the near side of the mountain. It looked to me like someone had turned on a fog machine. You could actually watch the cloud roll over the top, down the slope and just disappear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2162\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fogpans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fogpans.jpg 954w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fogpans-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fogpans-768x306.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about hiking up to the top of the Sandias this weekend but a quick check of the weather put an end to that thinking, primarily because of the forecast for high winds. Where we live, at the edge of a canyon, that usually means that the winds will really be high, and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-and-environs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}