{"id":24713,"date":"2024-03-11T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2024-03-11T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:50:38","slug":"washington-monument-closes-due-to-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24713","title":{"rendered":"Washington Monument closes due to strong winds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Washington Monument closed on Sunday because of high winds, the National Mall National Park Service (NPS) announced on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The NPS later clarified that the monument itself was not at risk but that it was closing to make sure visitors were not standing in line for a prolonged period during that weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s correct. The Monument is not in any danger,\u201d the NPS wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in response to an X user\u2019s question. \u201cBut holding people in lines at the entry door in high wind conditions is against our operations policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=DCZ001&amp;warncounty=DCC001&amp;firewxzone=DCZ001&amp;local_place1=Washington DC&amp;product1=Wind+Advisory&amp;lat=38.8977&amp;lon=-77.0366\"><u>wind advisory<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for the Washington area was issued on Sunday, with winds at 20 to 30 mph and gusts up to 55 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first time the monument had to close as a result of bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, the Washington Monument was struck by lightning as thunderstorms moved across the region,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/sustainability\/environment\/568062-spectacular-lightning-strike-hits-washington\/\"><u>damaging<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;the electrical system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4523141-washington-monument-closes-due-to-strong-winds\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Monument closed on Sunday because of high winds, the National Mall National Park Service (NPS) announced on social media. The NPS later clarified that the monument itself was not at risk but that it was closing to make sure visitors were not standing in line for a prolonged period during that weather. \u201cThat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[23370,27119,24413,27118],"class_list":["post-24713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-closure","tag-nps","tag-strong-winds","tag-washington-monument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24715,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions\/24715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}