{"id":23935,"date":"2020-01-20T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23935"},"modified":"2020-01-20T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:31:04","slug":"cold-start-to-the-week-but-not-cold-enough-for-ice-skating-in-abingdon-on-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23935","title":{"rendered":"Cold start to the week but not cold enough for Ice Skating in Abingdon-on-Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011918.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a hard frost on both Saturday and Sunday morning, and this Monday morning temperatures were at -2C as people set off to work.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011900i.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nThe big cooling towers of Didcot A coal Power Station have been demolished, but the more efficient Didcot B gas Power Station was working hard &#8211; its lower cooling towers creating clouds of vapour.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011900e.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nThere was cloud early in the morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011901.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nThe flood water from the River Thames appeared to be receding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011902.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nSunrise showed through the clouds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011904.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nFrost can be seen on the grass and the dried stalks of riverside plants.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20011911.jpg\" alt=\"Cold start to the week\" \/><br \/>\nFlood pools had a film of ice but not thick enough for ice skating. <\/p>\n<p>With a forecast of warmer days ahead, the possibility of ice skating in Abingdon looks remote. Later in the day the clouds cleared and temperatures reached 7C before cooling down by evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a hard frost on both Saturday and Sunday morning, and this Monday morning temperatures were at -2C as people set off to work. The big cooling towers of Didcot A coal Power Station have been demolished, but the more efficient Didcot B gas Power Station was working hard &#8211; its lower cooling towers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}