{"id":16748,"date":"2018-09-29T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:24:35","slug":"hurricane-rosa-to-bring-flash-floods-to-mexico-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16748","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Rosa to bring flash floods to Mexico, US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"97.6235595391\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hurricane Rosa, currently in the eastern Pacific, has put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/mexico.html\">Mexico<\/a> and southwestern US on alert for the risk of flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Once a strong Category 4 storm, Rosa continues to weaken as it moves to the north-northeast, making a projected landfall in the Mexican state of Baja California on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Baja California Sur is already seeing the higher clouds moving in from Rosa, which is approximately 900km away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the next 24 to 48 hours, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco<\/span>\u00a0states will see stronger winds and increased coastal storm surge.<\/p>\n<p><span>Rosa is expected to bring 100 to 400mm of rain as it passes over the Baja Peninsula as a tropical storm leading to the increased risk of flash flooding and mudslides for this arid state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even though Rosa is expected to weaken considerably as it passes across Baja California, much of the moisture will continue to push into the southwestern US through midweek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arizona, California and Nevada have already issued flash flood watches before the expected rainfall &#8211; 50 to 100mm of rain could fall in a very short period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some forecast models are suggesting the storm&#8217;s moisture will be picked up by a system coming out of the Pacific Northwest and help enhance the rainfall totals across the Midwest this coming week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This year, the eastern Pacific has been particularly active with 17 named storms and 10 hurricanes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an average season, there are normally 15 named storms and eight hurricanes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With the end of hurricane season still weeks away, the final total of eastern Pacific storms could easily go up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Rosa, currently in the eastern Pacific, has put Mexico and southwestern US on alert for the risk of flash flooding. Once a strong Category 4 storm, Rosa continues to weaken as it moves to the north-northeast, making a projected landfall in the Mexican state of Baja California on Monday afternoon. Baja California Sur is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}