{"id":20146,"date":"2020-08-24T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2020-08-24T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:48:10","slug":"earthsky-why-some-rain-falls-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/08\/earthsky-why-some-rain-falls-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthSky: Why some rain falls so hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of our region has seen some rain over the last week. You might have noticed that sometimes the rain falls in a gentle shower, while other times it pours like a waterfall. What causes the differences? This article from <em>EarthSky<\/em> provides a simple look at what causes variations in rainfall. As you experience more rain this week from TS Marco and TS Laura, you might enjoy reading it <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/why-some-rain-falls-so-hard-downpours?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=7a22d10494-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-7a22d10494-393619445\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of our region has seen some rain over the last week. You might have noticed that sometimes the rain falls in a gentle shower, while other times it pours like a waterfall. What causes the differences? This article from EarthSky provides a simple look at what causes variations in rainfall. As you experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20146","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\/20146","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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20147,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}