{"id":11554,"date":"2017-06-23T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2017-06-23T20:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T00:08:03","slug":"wettest-tropical-storms-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/wettest-tropical-storms-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Wettest tropical storms in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weather Underground<\/em> has a story describing some of the June tropical storms that were memorable for the amount of rain that was dropped during the storm. You might recognize some of these names, many of which were retired after their spectacular flooding.\u00a0 June storms are often so wet because they are slow-movers, which allows a longer time for rain to accumulate at any one spot.\u00a0 A quick rule of thumb is that the amount of rain dropped by a tropical storm is 100 divided by the forward speed.\u00a0 So if a storm is going 10 mph, then you can expect up to ten inches of rain.\u00a0 If it is going just 3 mph forward speed, you can expect up to 33 inches. You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/june-tropical-storms-hurricanes-flood-heavy-rain?__prclt=9qCQfjx4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Allison_2001_rainfall.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7286\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Allison_2001_rainfall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather Underground has a story describing some of the June tropical storms that were memorable for the amount of rain that was dropped during the storm. You might recognize some of these names, many of which were retired after their spectacular flooding.\u00a0 June storms are often so wet because they are slow-movers, which allows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11555,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions\/11555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}