{"id":721998,"date":"2022-04-21T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721998"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:20:40","slug":"kauais-2018-record-setting-rain-was-caused-by-a-series-of-supercell-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721998","title":{"rendered":"Kaua&#039;i&#039;s 2018 record-setting rain was caused by a series of supercell thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record-setting rainstorm over Kaua&#8217;i, Hawai&#8217;i in April 2018 resulted in severe flash flooding and estimated damage of nearly $180 million. The deluge damaged or destroyed 532 homes, and landslides left people along Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s north coast without access to their homes. In a recently published study, atmospheric scientists at the University of Hawai&#8217;i at M\u0101noa revealed that severe supercell thunderstorms were to blame.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-kauai-record-setting-series-supercell-thunderstorms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s 2018 record-setting rain was caused by a series of supercell thunderstorms<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record-setting rainstorm over Kaua&#8217;i, Hawai&#8217;i in April 2018 resulted in severe flash flooding and estimated damage of nearly $180 million. The deluge damaged or destroyed 532 homes, and landslides&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}