{"id":10374,"date":"2017-03-13T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:54:45","slug":"color-me-dry-drought-maps-blend-art-and-science-but-no-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/color-me-dry-drought-maps-blend-art-and-science-but-no-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Color Me Dry: Drought Maps Blend Art and Science \u2014 But No Politics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story about how the Drought Monitor is made from <em>KQED<\/em> out west. \u00a0It describes the combination of quantitative factors along with the art that makes the map come together. \u00a0However, unlike the headline above, I know of a few examples where politics has also come into play, although for the most part the authors do a good job of trying to keep politics to a minimum. \u00a0That leads to some interesting differences between what state governments say are the conditions and what the DM designates as drought, as I&#8217;ve discussed in earlier blog posts. \u00a0You can read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/science\/2017\/03\/10\/color-me-dry-drought-maps-blend-art-and-science-but-no-politics\/\">https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/science\/2017\/03\/10\/color-me-dry-drought-maps-blend-art-and-science-but-no-politics\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/KQED_CADrought_170307B_FI-768x432.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10375\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/KQED_CADrought_170307B_FI-768x432-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/KQED_CADrought_170307B_FI-768x432-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/KQED_CADrought_170307B_FI-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/KQED_CADrought_170307B_FI-768x432-245x138.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story about how the Drought Monitor is made from KQED out west. \u00a0It describes the combination of quantitative factors along with the art that makes the map come together. \u00a0However, unlike the headline above, I know of a few examples where politics has also come into play, although for the most part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10374","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\/10374","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=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10377,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}