{"id":186,"date":"2014-05-20T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=186"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:49","slug":"fields-drying-hot-memorial-day-weekend-could-speed-that-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/05\/fields-drying-hot-memorial-day-weekend-could-speed-that-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fields drying, hot Memorial Day weekend could speed that up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WALB<\/em> reports that after a dry few days, fields in Southwest Georgia are drying out and farmers are catching up on field work, which has been running about two weeks behind normal.\u00a0 For details, click <a title=\"WASB story on field conditions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walb.com\/story\/25558350\/field-conditions-are-starting-to-improve\">here<\/a> to read the story.\u00a0 Meanwhile, forecasts for this Memorial Day weekend indicate that temperatures on Memorial Day weekend could reach the 100&#8217;s and potentially set records in Florida and southern Georgia and Alabama.\u00a0 This could further dry out wet fields but may put stress on animals (and people) that are out in the heat.\u00a0 Please take care!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/florida-temps-mem-day-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-187\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/florida-temps-mem-day-2014-300x215.png\" alt=\"Predicted maximum temperature on Memorial Day 2014\" width=\"335\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/florida-temps-mem-day-2014-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/florida-temps-mem-day-2014-192x138.png 192w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/05\/florida-temps-mem-day-2014.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Predicted maximum temperature on Memorial Day 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALB reports that after a dry few days, fields in Southwest Georgia are drying out and farmers are catching up on field work, which has been running about two weeks behind normal.\u00a0 For details, click here to read the story.\u00a0 Meanwhile, forecasts for this Memorial Day weekend indicate that temperatures on Memorial Day weekend could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}