{"id":11473,"date":"2017-06-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2017-06-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:58:00","slug":"why-noaa-and-usda-have-two-different-plant-hardiness-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/why-noaa-and-usda-have-two-different-plant-hardiness-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NOAA and USDA have two different plant hardiness maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article from <em>Fivethirtyeight.com<\/em> about why NOAA and USDA have slightly different plant hardiness zone maps.\u00a0 These maps help gardeners determine what kind of plants are likely to do well in a given location and are based primarily on lowest minimum temperatures. Because of the way they are calculated, the two maps show some differences.\u00a0 You can read about it and see both comparisons between the two maps and projections for what they might look like in the future at <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/two-government-agencies-two-different-climate-maps\/?ex_cid=story-twitter\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/two-government-agencies-two-different-climate-maps\/?ex_cid=story-twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/plant_zone_newnormals_620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10826\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/plant_zone_newnormals_620-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/plant_zone_newnormals_620-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/plant_zone_newnormals_620-169x138.jpg 169w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/plant_zone_newnormals_620.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article from Fivethirtyeight.com about why NOAA and USDA have slightly different plant hardiness zone maps.\u00a0 These maps help gardeners determine what kind of plants are likely to do well in a given location and are based primarily on lowest minimum temperatures. Because of the way they are calculated, the two maps show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473","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=11473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11474,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions\/11474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}