{"id":8309,"date":"2021-07-22T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:20:53","slug":"extreme-rainfall-in-china-over-25-inches-falls-in-24-hours-leaving-33-dead-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Extreme rainfall in China: over 25 inches falls in 24 hours, leaving 33 dead \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;At least 33 people are dead and 8 missing in Zhengzhou, China, after a July 20 extreme rainfall event of nearly unimaginable intensity. Zhengzhou, a megacity of more than 10 million \u2013 and the world\u2019s biggest manufacturing base for iPhones and a major hub for food production and heavy industry \u2013 recorded an astonishing 644.6 mm (25.38 inches) of rain in the 24 hours ending at 21Z July 20. This is literally more than a year\u2019s worth of rain: Its average annual precipitation (1981-2010 climatology) is only 640.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/yaleclimateconnections.org\/2021\/07\/extreme-rainfall-in-china-over-25-inches-falls-in-24-hours-leaving-33-dead\/\">Extreme rainfall in China: over 25 inches falls in 24 hours, leaving 33 dead \u00bb Yale Climate Connections<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;At least 33 people are dead and 8 missing in Zhengzhou, China, after a July 20 extreme rainfall event of nearly unimaginable intensity. Zhengzhou, a megacity of more than 10 million \u2013 and the world\u2019s biggest manufacturing base for iPhones and a major hub for food production and heavy industry \u2013 recorded an astonishing 644.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}