{"id":1485,"date":"2014-12-05T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2014-12-06T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T05:01:36","slug":"new-study-indicates-californias-drought-is-worst-in-1200-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/new-study-indicates-californias-drought-is-worst-in-1200-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New study indicates California&#8217;s drought is worst in 1200 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> published a story today based on a study by the American Geophysical Union that explores the return period of the latest drought in California. \u00a0The study, based on tree ring analysis, shows that the current exceptional drought is the worst in about 1200 years based on temperature and precipitation reconstructions. \u00a0You can read the story <a title=\"WP California drought worst in 1200 years\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2014\/12\/04\/study-california-drought-is-the-most-severe-in-at-least-1200-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The study also showed that about 44 percent of droughts that lasted 3 years went on to a fourth or more year. \u00a0This week&#8217;s rains will be beneficial \u00a0but are far short of what is needed to end this terrible drought.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1489\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1489\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014-300x300.png\" alt=\"Source: National Drought Monitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/CA-drought-12-2-2014.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Drought Monitor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published a story today based on a study by the American Geophysical Union that explores the return period of the latest drought in California. \u00a0The study, based on tree ring analysis, shows that the current exceptional drought is the worst in about 1200 years based on temperature and precipitation reconstructions. \u00a0You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","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\/1485","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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}