{"id":3169,"date":"2026-08-05T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:53:40","slug":"unusual-hailstorm-surprises-santa-cruz-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Hailstorm Surprises Santa Cruz Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpected hailstorm hit Santa Cruz, Trinidad, this afternoon, leaving residents surprised and many reaching for their smartphones to capture the bizarre weather phenomenon. Videos on  social media show hailstones falling heavily. As Trinidad grapples with various weather patterns, incidents like this raise questions about climate change and the increasing frequency of unusual weather in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Santa Cruz share videos of hail falling this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}