{"id":18972,"date":"2020-02-25T21:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:16:05","slug":"video-assessing-drought-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/02\/video-assessing-drought-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Assessing Drought in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a cute 6-minute video which explains how drought is assessed in the US by the Drought Monitor. It&#8217;s produced by our CoCoRaHS friends, who also have a lot of handy videos on how to measure precipitation. It includes a discussion of what the different drought classifications mean and how the Drought Monitor is made. You can view it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7F6QwRqyVI&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR2NHIqa8yqQQZEFrM9Dp1oJFn-CPVwOFmDhOgwb7N1orwEoCgF9zZlutzo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/USDM2019_d1-d4_max.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/USDM2019_d1-d4_max.png 1000w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/USDM2019_d1-d4_max-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/USDM2019_d1-d4_max-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Map displays the maximum weekly U.S. Drought Monitor category reached during 2019\u200b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a cute 6-minute video which explains how drought is assessed in the US by the Drought Monitor. It&#8217;s produced by our CoCoRaHS friends, who also have a lot of handy videos on how to measure precipitation. It includes a discussion of what the different drought classifications mean and how the Drought Monitor is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":18714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","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=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18974,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}