{"id":523203,"date":"2022-09-19T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=523203"},"modified":"2022-09-19T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:22:58","slug":"alaska-braces-for-floods-power-outages-as-huge-storm-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/alaska-braces-for-floods-power-outages-as-huge-storm-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska braces for floods, power outages as huge storm nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on Alaska&#8217;s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced on Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, threatening hurricane-force winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is the remnants of what was Typhoon Merbok, which University of Alaska Fairbanks climate specialist Rick Thoman said is also influencing weather patterns far from Alaska \u2014 a rare late-summer storm now is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this warm air that&#8217;s been brought north by this ex-typhoon is basically inducing a chain reaction in the jet stream downstream from Alaska,\u201d he said. \u201cIt&#8217;s a historic-level storm,\u201d Thoman said of the system steaming toward Alaska. \u201cIn 10 years, people will be referring to the September 2022 storm as a benchmark storm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on Alaska&#8217;s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced on Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, threatening hurricane-force winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding. The storm is the remnants of what was Typhoon Merbok, which University of Alaska Fairbanks climate specialist Rick Thoman said is also influencing weather patterns far from Alaska \u2014 a rare late-summer storm now is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California. \u201cAll this warm air that&#8217;s been brought north by this ex-typhoon is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}