{"id":823138,"date":"2026-08-23T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:40:07","slug":"see-the-invisible-force-driving-destructive-floods-across-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823138\/","title":{"rendered":"See the invisible force driving destructive floods across the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IMJTHRAHANB5PDWAXYR5L4WSGU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Some of the most extreme weather in the United States this summer have been driven by an invisible force pooling in the skies above: water vapor.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OLVVOZ5HTRAN3PCLWAUUB2A4TY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Although recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2026\/08\/13\/deadly-dangerous-derecho-tracks-around-400-miles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2026\/08\/13\/deadly-dangerous-derecho-tracks-around-400-miles\/\">destructive floods<\/a> in Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Texas, West Virginia and many other states may seem geographically disconnected, they share a link to something happening thousands of miles away, in a remote stretch of the tropical Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the most extreme weather in the United States this summer have been driven by an invisible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-823138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}