{"id":1714,"date":"2010-05-25T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:50","slug":"still-in-australia-waiting-on-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Still in Australia waiting on weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had planned to leave this morning for New Caledonia but yesterday the weather forecast turned a bit ugly and we decided to stay in port.\u00a0 We had returned our rental car,\u00a0 bought our rotisserie chickens, and booked a time with Australia Customs.\u00a0 Now we are left with a lot of pre-cooked chicken. What has seems like a small blemish on the weather chart quickly blew up into a low pressure cell now predicted to generate wind up to 40 knots and 9 &#8211; 13 foot waves.\u00a0 We will wait a few days for this small system and a larger low pressure system behind it to pass off to the east.\u00a0 Things should settle down by Friday or more likely Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some more signs from Australia:<\/p>\n<p>[slickr-flickr tag=&#8221;sign2010&#8243; id=&#8221;48817769@N00&#8243; captions=&#8221;off&#8221; descriptions=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had planned to leave this morning for New Caledonia but yesterday the weather forecast turned a bit ugly and we decided to stay in port.\u00a0 We had returned our rental car,\u00a0 bought our rotisserie chickens, and booked a time with Australia Customs.\u00a0 Now we are left with a lot of pre-cooked chicken. What has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still in Australia waiting on weather&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,1,35],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australiaspring2010","category-other","category-passage-australia-newcaledonia-2010","tag-passages-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}