{"id":17493,"date":"2019-07-11T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=17493"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:57:51","slug":"noaa-heavy-rain-in-the-us-has-increased-and-more-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/07\/noaa-heavy-rain-in-the-us-has-increased-and-more-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: Heavy rain in the US has increased, and more is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s Climate blog posted a story earlier this week on the increase that has been seen in the US (and elsewhere) in heavy precipitation events. As warmer temperatures allow more moisture to evaporate into the air, it becomes &#8220;juicier&#8221; and\u00a0 more likely to produce heavy rain in downpours. This trend is likely to continue in the future too, as the atmosphere warms even more. You can read more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/prepare-more-downpours-heavy-rain-has-increased-across-most-united-0\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/prepare-more-downpours-heavy-rain-has-increased-across-most-united-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1856\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1856\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Free Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s Climate blog posted a story earlier this week on the increase that has been seen in the US (and elsewhere) in heavy precipitation events. As warmer temperatures allow more moisture to evaporate into the air, it becomes &#8220;juicier&#8221; and\u00a0 more likely to produce heavy rain in downpours. This trend is likely to continue in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493","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=17493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17495,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493\/revisions\/17495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}