{"id":8031,"date":"2016-08-18T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2016-08-18T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T01:54:30","slug":"hit-or-miss-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/hit-or-miss-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit or miss rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel like the rain showers that are passing through the area are always missing you? \u00a0One of the problems with summertime thunderstorms is that they are highly variable in space and time, hitting some areas repeatedly while missing others altogether. \u00a0Over the long haul, the rainfall should distribute itself out, but on the short-term, it is very frustrating to be constantly missed by the storms while your neighbors get too much.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this tonight on my way home from work when I stopped to take this picture of a rain shaft to my north. \u00a0It was nice and clear where I stopped, but the rain was falling hard just a mile away. \u00a0My wipers could barely keep up! \u00a0Remember that if you get in this situation, flash flooding can occur quickly. \u00a0Be careful driving and don&#8217;t cross flooded roads, because they might be undermined. \u00a0As the Weather Service says, Turn around, don&#8217;t drown!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8032\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"watkinsville downpour 8-18-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/watkinsville-downpour-8-18-2016.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel like the rain showers that are passing through the area are always missing you? \u00a0One of the problems with summertime thunderstorms is that they are highly variable in space and time, hitting some areas repeatedly while missing others altogether. \u00a0Over the long haul, the rainfall should distribute itself out, but on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031","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=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}