{"id":10246,"date":"2017-03-02T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10246"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:56:10","slug":"drought-expands-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/drought-expands-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought expands again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All categories of drought showed a slight expansion in the latest Drought Monitor map. \u00a0Particularly worrisome is the re-expansion of severe drought in northern Georgia and back into the western Carolinas. \u00a0Warm conditions and an early start to the growing season has taken moisture out of the soil and increased evaporation and evapotranspiration, which has led to reduced stream flows and a continuation of low reservoir levels. \u00a0Rain earlier this week after the cut-off of the map on Tuesday may provide some relief but the next week looks mainly dry, so we will be watching this closely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10247\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/dm-20170228_southeast_none.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All categories of drought showed a slight expansion in the latest Drought Monitor map. \u00a0Particularly worrisome is the re-expansion of severe drought in northern Georgia and back into the western Carolinas. \u00a0Warm conditions and an early start to the growing season has taken moisture out of the soil and increased evaporation and evapotranspiration, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10248,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions\/10248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}