{"id":27294,"date":"2018-10-23T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27294"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:28:02","slug":"what-caused-the-floods-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-caused-the-floods-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"What caused the floods in Kerala?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/what-caused-the-floods-in-kerala\/article25023787.ece\">What caused the floods in Kerala?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A study published in <em>Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion<\/em> has identified a combination factors which led to the 2018 Kerala Flood Disaster<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Factors contributing to Kerala Flood Disaster<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u00a0Above normal summer (May-August) rainfall: In 2018, summer rainfall in Kerala has been 2,290 mm (53% above normal). This has been the third wettest year for Kerala since 1901.<\/li>\n<li>Extreme rainfall events during monsoon season: Kerala experienced a significantly higher number of extreme rainfall events till August.<\/li>\n<li>Due to higher than normal rainfall, major reservoirs in the Kerala had over 90% reservoir storage even before the onset of extreme rainfall events<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What caused the floods in Kerala? News: A study published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussion has identified a combination factors which led to the 2018 Kerala Flood Disaster Important Facts: Factors contributing to Kerala Flood Disaster \u00a0Above normal summer (May-August) rainfall: In 2018, summer rainfall in Kerala has been 2,290 mm (53% above&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-caused-the-floods-in-kerala\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What caused the floods in Kerala?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704878631},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}