{"id":27730,"date":"2019-07-26T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59027"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:10:38","slug":"rare-funnel-cloud-spotted-near-rocky-mountain-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/rare-funnel-cloud-spotted-near-rocky-mountain-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare funnel cloud spotted near Rocky Mountain National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hikers in and around Rocky Mountain National Park were treated to a natural surprise on Wednesday. Fortunately, this surprise didn\u2019t have teeth or produce any damage.<\/p>\n<p>A funnel cloud was spotted near Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a host of spectacular images.<\/p>\n<p>While ominous-looking, according to the National Weather Service office in Boulder, the funnel did not produce a tornado. The funnel took place near Grand Lake, west of Rocky Mountain National Park.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, the funnel was likely not caused by a supercell thunderstorm, the traditional method for the formation of a tornado. Instead, it was likely caused by a collision of low-level winds that creates a so-called landspout tornado.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/07\/25\/rare-funnel-cloud-rocky-mountain-national-park\/\">DenverPost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hikers in and around Rocky Mountain National Park were treated to a natural surprise on Wednesday. Fortunately, this surprise didn\u2019t have teeth or produce any damage. A funnel cloud was spotted near Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a host of spectacular images. While ominous-looking, according to the National Weather Service office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:31:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}