{"id":13923,"date":"2010-05-25T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/05\/25\/cliff-notes-the-short-version-of-the-cliff-mass-blog\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T07:00:01","slug":"cliff-notes-the-short-version-of-the-cliff-mass-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100525-01\/?p=13923","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Notes: The short version of the Cliff Mass blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~cliff\/cliff.php\"> Cliff Mass<\/a> is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. To those of us in the Seattle area, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/living\/2008452574_mass010.html\"> he&#8217;s a weather celebrity<\/a>, appearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/program.php?id=20295\"> every Friday on local public radio station KUOW<\/a> to provide a weekend weather forecast and discuss other weather issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/\"> His blog<\/a> covers similar material, such as his explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/there-is-bird-in-my-radar.html\"> why weather radar shows lots of echoes even though there was no rain<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> His articles, while fascinating, are also quite long, so to help you get through them, there is the <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmasstldr.blogspot.com\/\"> Cliff Mass TLDR blog<\/a>. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmasstldr.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/radar-is-picking-up-birds-instead-of.html\"> the TLDR version of the mysterious echoes goes like this<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>The radar is picking up birds instead of rain<\/b><br \/> It&#8217;s been dry, but the weather radar last night showed lots of echos, suggesting it rained all night. No, it was just birds.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <b>Explaining the joke in the title<\/b>: &#8220;Cliff Notes&#8221; is a pun on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliffsnotes.com\/\">CliffsNotes<\/a>, a United States producer of study guides. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Mass is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. To those of us in the Seattle area, he&#8217;s a weather celebrity, appearing every Friday on local public radio station KUOW to provide a weekend weather forecast and discuss other weather issues. His blog covers similar material, such as his explanation of why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-13923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Cliff Mass is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. To those of us in the Seattle area, he&#8217;s a weather celebrity, appearing every Friday on local public radio station KUOW to provide a weekend weather forecast and discuss other weather issues. His blog covers similar material, such as his explanation of why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}