{"id":4653,"date":"2015-10-07T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:34:21","slug":"usgs-how-much-rain-fell-during-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/10\/usgs-how-much-rain-fell-during-a-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"USGS: How much rain fell during a storm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS has a nice tool for calculating the total amount of rain that fell in a storm. \u00a0You can find it at their Water School site at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/edu\/activity-howmuchrain.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/edu\/activity-howmuchrain.html<\/a>. \u00a0Based on this tool, it has been estimated that the amount of rain that fell in the South Carolina flood was 11 trillion gallons of water, according to USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2015\/10\/06\/11-trillion-gallons-water-fell-carolinas-past-week\/73447754\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4654\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Derek Harper, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Derek Harper, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS has a nice tool for calculating the total amount of rain that fell in a storm. \u00a0You can find it at their Water School site at\u00a0https:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/edu\/activity-howmuchrain.html. \u00a0Based on this tool, it has been estimated that the amount of rain that fell in the South Carolina flood was 11 trillion gallons of water, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","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=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}