{"id":3159,"date":"2014-07-15T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:23:22","slug":"summer-downpours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/summer-downpours\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer downpours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<p>The new study\u00a0 uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer rainfall rates could increase. While summers are expected to become drier overall by 2100, intense rainfall indicative of serious flash flooding could become several times more frequent.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to read more on the <a title=\"Heavier summer downpours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/news\/releases\/archive\/2014\/extreme-summer-rainfall\">Met Office <\/a>website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University. The new study\u00a0 uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer rainfall rates could increase. While summers are expected to become drier overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}