{"id":10257,"date":"2017-03-03T10:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2017-03-03T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T15:56:34","slug":"nc-drought-status-varies-from-the-drought-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/nc-drought-status-varies-from-the-drought-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"NC drought status varies from the Drought Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina noted this week that &#8220;the map on the front page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdrought.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NC Drought Management Advisory Council<\/a> (DMAC) website, which serves as the official drought designation for North Carolina, is different than the weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Drought Monitor<\/a> (USDM) map.&#8221; \u00a0This happens from time to time when the assessment of drought impacts by the state Drought Council differs from the criteria used by the Drought Monitor authors, who make a unified map for the entire country. \u00a0In fact, South Carolina and Georgia also use somewhat different criteria for drought than the Drought Monitor, although the DM is often used for crop insurance claims and other federal programs. \u00a0You can read more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=228&amp;h=5666e5c1\">https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=228&amp;h=5666e5c1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10258\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-300x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-768x254.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-1024x339.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-1200x400.png 1200w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28-417x138.png 417w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/nc-drought_comparison_2017-02-28.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina noted this week that &#8220;the map on the front page of the NC Drought Management Advisory Council (DMAC) website, which serves as the official drought designation for North Carolina, is different than the weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) map.&#8221; \u00a0This happens from time to time when the assessment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","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=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}