{"id":21309,"date":"2021-03-07T23:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21309"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:41:58","slug":"making-sense-of-flash-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/03\/making-sense-of-flash-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Making sense of flash drought&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever heard the term &#8220;flash drought&#8221; and wondered where it came from? It turns out that it has only been around for about 20 years, but is being used more and more to describe a drought that comes on quickly and severely. If you are interested, you might like to read this article in the new online <em>Journal of Applied and Service Climatology<\/em> to hear more about where the name came from and how different groups define it. The article is at <a href=\"https:\/\/stateclimate.org\/pdfs\/journal-articles\/2021_1-Lisonbee.pdf\">https:\/\/stateclimate.org\/pdfs\/journal-articles\/2021_1-Lisonbee.pdf<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc.jpg 620w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard the term &#8220;flash drought&#8221; and wondered where it came from? It turns out that it has only been around for about 20 years, but is being used more and more to describe a drought that comes on quickly and severely. If you are interested, you might like to read this article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309","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=21309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21310,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions\/21310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}