{"id":14975,"date":"2018-07-10T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14975"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:15:50","slug":"vital-but-unfunded-how-accurate-is-the-u-s-drought-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/07\/vital-but-unfunded-how-accurate-is-the-u-s-drought-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vital But Unfunded, How Accurate is the U.S. Drought Monitor?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks I have not heard much about drought in the Southeast (and no wonder, considering how wet we have been), but in past droughts I got a lot of questions about our drought status as depicted in the Drought Monitor. Here&#8217;s an interesting story about how the Drought Monitor is produced, basically on a shoestring, and how it has become a very valuable tool in assessing drought around the US and even beyond. You can read it at <em>AgWeb<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/vital-but-unfunded-how-accurate-is-the-us-drought-monitor-\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRJeU5HWXpNbUkzTm1JeCIsInQiOiJ5RUNDV3owUjhwWFpUVEpNVFNZcXlZSnBxYlJ4SHg0b3BHdHF6ZUJoQnJOek53b2h0d0p4T2NmZXdodzZ5ekFxOWp2K2wxaUZxY2ozWkRCNnJMSFRSUTRhcUVVXC9vUzBiOEN0TEk2Q0poTm9ma2dnQUVSUHZMSWhqalwvbkJOaXZ6In0%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14976\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/dm-20180403_usdm_0-187x138.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks I have not heard much about drought in the Southeast (and no wonder, considering how wet we have been), but in past droughts I got a lot of questions about our drought status as depicted in the Drought Monitor. Here&#8217;s an interesting story about how the Drought Monitor is produced, basically on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14975","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\/14975","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=14975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14977,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions\/14977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}