{"id":1309,"date":"2014-11-14T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:18:28","slug":"abnormally-dry-conditions-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/11\/abnormally-dry-conditions-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"Abnormally dry conditions expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded in the Southeast.\u00a0 Most of the increase is in the Carolinas, where abnormally dry conditions have spread across much of those states.\u00a0 But other areas are also seeing the effects of the lack of rainfall as well.\u00a0 So far in Athens GA I have had just two days this month with any rainfall at all (0.03 inches total so far).\u00a0 The average, according to the statistics at <a title=\"cli-MATE website\" href=\"https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/CLIMATE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cli-MATE<\/a>, is an average of 11 days per November with measurable precipitation.\u00a0 The Athens airport has had 0.06 inches in November, which according to <a title=\"SERCC Perspectives tool\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sercc.com\/perspectives?user=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SERCC perspectives tool<\/a> is the 6th driest for the month to date for the airport records (13th driest if you use the entire threaded historical record for all combined stations in Athens).\u00a0 Of course, October and November are generally pretty dry months, and most plants have ended their growing season, so impacts at this point are not large, but it is something we will have to watch as the winter recharge period unfolds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/drought-monitor-11-14-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1310\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/drought-monitor-11-14-2014-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"drought monitor 11-14-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/drought-monitor-11-14-2014-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/drought-monitor-11-14-2014-178x138.jpg 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/drought-monitor-11-14-2014.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded in the Southeast.\u00a0 Most of the increase is in the Carolinas, where abnormally dry conditions have spread across much of those states.\u00a0 But other areas are also seeing the effects of the lack of rainfall as well.\u00a0 So far in Athens GA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","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\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22917,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/22917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}