{"id":143819,"date":"2018-11-16T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=143819"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:03:39","slug":"flaky-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/flaky-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaky Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students on the Storrs Campus Nov. 15. (UConn Photo\/Lucas Voghell '20)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_5886\"<\/a>
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A plow truck in the parking lot at Hilltop Residence Halls. (UConn Photo\/Lucas Voghell '20)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_5885\"<\/a>
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A student embraces the first snow of the academic year at Hilltop Residence Halls. (UConn Photo\/Lucas Voghell '20)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_5888\"<\/a>
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Sliding on campus in Storrs. (UConn Photo\/Lucas Voghell '20)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Not all snowflakes are symmetrical.\u00a0Snowflakes can pop out different shaped triangles on different sides but they are always formed by some combination of triangles spawning more triangles on their sides, infinitely.\u00a0UConn mathematician Vyron Vellis knows because he has studied them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the first snowflakes of the academic year began to fly on Thursday, students and plow truck drivers went outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":143821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-143819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 02:45:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143826,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143819\/revisions\/143826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/143821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143819"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=143819"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}