{"id":5485,"date":"2021-11-12T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:08:12","slug":"5485-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/5485-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauk Centre, Minnesota: First Winter Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/webcam\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20210922ff\/202111120808-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Webcam's view of Sauk Centre's first winter snowfall. (November 12, 2021)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have almost inch of snow this morning, here in Sauk Centre, with a winter weather advisory on until noon. And I see there&#8217;s a blizzard warning in effect, west of us, on the Minnesota\/South Dakota border.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take this as marking the start of winter. Now it&#8217;s time for coffee.<\/p>\n<p>More-or-less-related stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/webcam\/\">Webcam: Sauk Centre MN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/october-25-2021-a-blue-day-in-sauk-centre\/\">October 25, 2021: A Blue Day in Sauk Centre<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(October 25, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/5353-2\/\">&#8216;Red Sky at Night Sailors Delight&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(October 15, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/drought-air-quality-alert-living-in-the-upper-midwest\/\">Drought, Air Quality Alert: Living in the Upper Midwest<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(July 24, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/blue-sky-tan-grass-second-covid-19-shot-and-fever\/\">Blue Sky, Tan Grass, Second COVID-19 Shot and Fever<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(June 19, 2021)<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have almost inch of snow this morning, here in Sauk Centre, with a winter weather advisory on until noon. And I see there&#8217;s a blizzard warning in effect, west of us, on the Minnesota\/South Dakota border. I&#8217;ll take this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/5485-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Sauk Centre, Minnesota's first snowfall of the winter. Still picture from my webcam.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[194,241,132],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-minnesota","tag-upper-midwest","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1qt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}