{"id":10760,"date":"2017-04-14T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2017-04-14T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:46:37","slug":"sources-of-soil-moisture-data-for-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/sources-of-soil-moisture-data-for-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of soil moisture data for Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_173852\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801555\" class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\">Roger Gates, Extension ANR agent in Whitfield County, wrote me to ask for help in finding soil moisture data because he was struggling to fill out the soil moisture survey for the weekly Crop Progress and Condition Survey. \u00a0I asked him if it would be OK to share his question and my answer because a few other readers may be having similar problems. \u00a0Here is my answer below along with today&#8217;s soil moisture map from the UGA automated weather network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_173852\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801556\" class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\">There are not many active soil moisture sensors around except for those on the UGA weather network. \u00a0And of course there is no UGA station in Whitfield County. Here is the link to their current soil moisture map, for what it is worth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_173852\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801566\" class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801565\"><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801564\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/?content=si&amp;variable=XE&amp;title=Soil%20Moisture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/?content=si&amp;variable=XE&amp;title=Soil%20Moisture<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_173852\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801551\" class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801568\">Here is a list of other soil moisture sites from the Drought Portal. \u00a0Some of these are surface-based from instruments and others are satellite based, which would be more useful for Whitfield County.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_173852\">\n<p class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/drought\/data-maps-tools\/soil-moisture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/drought\/data-maps-tools\/soil-moisture<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_174041\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801572\" class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492088470447_801571\">The streamflow data is collected by the US Geological Survey. \u00a0The general water page is at\u00a0<a id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_175377\" href=\"https:\/\/waterwatch.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/waterwatch.usgs.gov\/<\/a>. \u00a0You can see a map of current streamflow conditions for Georgia at\u00a0<a id=\"yiv3805845002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492003520504_175369\" href=\"https:\/\/waterwatch.usgs.gov\/?m=real&amp;r=ga&amp;w=map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/waterwatch.usgs.gov\/?m=real&amp;r=ga&amp;w=map<\/a>. \u00a0If you click on the stations in your county, you will get a summary page, and you can click on the station ID number to get more detailed information about the streamflow at that gauge and look at past data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3805845002MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/soil-moisture-4-14-2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10761\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/soil-moisture-4-14-2017-300x288.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/soil-moisture-4-14-2017-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/soil-moisture-4-14-2017-144x138.png 144w, 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