{"id":46452,"date":"2026-07-21T03:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46452"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:03:35","slug":"climate-scientists-have-predicted-greater-flooding-in-texas-for-decades-its-happening-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46452","title":{"rendered":"Climate scientists have predicted greater flooding in Texas for decades. It&#8217;s happening now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/energy-environment\/2026-07-18\/floods-texas-weather-climate-change-warming-air-gulf-water?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/urlhttp3A2F2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com2F102F422Feae7f2734f77ab2971227edc3e142F20250717-kerrville-afterfloods-pl-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:181px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Warmer air holds more water. When that air encounters the right weather conditions, bigger storms emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/energy-environment\/2026-07-18\/floods-texas-weather-climate-change-warming-air-gulf-water\">Climate scientists have predicted greater flooding in Texas for decades. It&#8217;s happening now<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmer air holds more water. When that air encounters the right weather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[319,870,513],"class_list":["post-46452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-agw","tag-floods","tag-texas","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46455,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46452\/revisions\/46455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}