{"id":21481,"date":"2021-04-01T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21481"},"modified":"2021-04-01T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:33:16","slug":"march-2021-was-warmer-and-drier-than-normal-in-most-parts-of-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/04\/march-2021-was-warmer-and-drier-than-normal-in-most-parts-of-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2021 was warmer and drier than normal in most parts of the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unlike February, March was much closer to the expected La Nina conditions. Temperature everywhere across the Southeast was warmer than normal. In a reversal of the usual trend, daytime high temperatures were more above normal than the nighttime lows. Precipitation in most parts of the region was drier than normal, but a few wet pockets still occurred, especially in northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. This pattern was a pretty close match for what was forecast at the beginning of the month, which does not always happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-temp-dep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-temp-dep.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-temp-dep.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-temp-dep-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-temp-dep-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-precip-dep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-precip-dep.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-precip-dep.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-precip-dep-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/04\/mar-21-precip-dep-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike February, March was much closer to the expected La Nina conditions. Temperature everywhere across the Southeast was warmer than normal. In a reversal of the usual trend, daytime high temperatures were more above normal than the nighttime lows. Precipitation in most parts of the region was drier than normal, but a few wet pockets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":21483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481","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=21481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21485,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481\/revisions\/21485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}