{"id":2401,"date":"2018-01-01T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enquiringear.wordpress.com\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2020-07-02T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T21:18:37","slug":"storm-ophelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/storm-ophelia\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Ophelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind is normally the enemy of sound recordists, but going through some recordings from last year I found this recording of ex-hurricane Ophelia from the 16th October 2017. Ophelia had been pretty nasty originally and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/climate\/uk\/interesting\/2017-ophelia\">still bad when it got to Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2401-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sounds\/audio\/171016_ophelia_T265.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sounds\/audio\/171016_ophelia_T265.mp3\">https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sounds\/audio\/171016_ophelia_T265.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I recorded it in Glastonbury in the south-west, by finding a sheltered spot and pointing the mic in a windshield at a bunch of trees, which made a good recording given the wind. The key was that I had good shelter at the mic, but the trees were exposed to the full force of the wind.<\/p>\n<p>The storm dragged up a load of Saharan dust, making the sky the sickly yellow in the pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind is normally the enemy of sound recordists, but going through some recordings from last year I found this recording of ex-hurricane Ophelia from the 16th October 2017. Ophelia had been pretty nasty originally and was still bad when it got to Ireland. I recorded it in Glastonbury in the south-west, by finding a sheltered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/storm-ophelia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Storm Ophelia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4122,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[237],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sounds","tag-natural-sounds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/171016_dust_p1010711_lzn-1.jpg?fit=800%2C639&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5aOO7-CJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}