{"id":19912,"date":"2020-07-23T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19912"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:31:45","slug":"abnormally-dry-conditions-return-drought-expands-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/07\/abnormally-dry-conditions-return-drought-expands-in-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Abnormally dry conditions return, drought expands in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As expected, the hot and dry conditions over the last week have led to the reintroduction of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in a lot of the Southeast, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. They also expanded in Virginia along with a big increase in the area of moderate (D1) drought in the northeast par of the state. With hot temperatures and light rainfall expected in the next week, I expect those areas to stay or even grow on next week&#8217;s Drought Monitor. Meanwhile, the drought in Puerto Rico has decreased slightly due to some needed rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/07\/dm-20200721_Southeast_none.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/07\/dm-20200721_Southeast_none.jpg 816w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/07\/dm-20200721_Southeast_none-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/07\/dm-20200721_Southeast_none-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/07\/dm-20200721_Southeast_none-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the hot and dry conditions over the last week have led to the reintroduction of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in a lot of the Southeast, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. They also expanded in Virginia along with a big increase in the area of moderate (D1) drought in the northeast par [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":19913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19912","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\/19912","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=19912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19914,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions\/19914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}