{"id":23242,"date":"2021-12-15T23:42:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2021-12-15T23:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:42:46","slug":"christmas-trees-burned-by-the-heat-dwindling-the-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/12\/christmas-trees-burned-by-the-heat-dwindling-the-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas trees burned by the heat, dwindling the supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several of my friends have commented to me this year how hard it has been to find a good live Christmas tree (especially at a reasonable price). There are a number of reasons for this, but one is that the weather has not been conducive to growing healthy trees. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/06\/weather\/weather-news-heat-kills-christmas-trees-hawaii-flooding-wxn\/index.html?utm_term=16388763758514d949b40515f&amp;utm_source=cnn_Five+Things+for+Tuesday%2C+December+7%2C+2021&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bt_ee=MKcFXd0BAd%2FgwI9MFYCCqRLT%2FrCj9Ybd3IFAB7jryEAQbhTb5j5bGaFcL6YsKj7y&amp;bt_ts=1638876375854\">CNN story<\/a> from Oregon explaining how last summer&#8217;s heat killed many of the Christmas trees that would have come to market this year in the western US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/12\/weather-christmas-tree-drought-card-image-super-169.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my friends have commented to me this year how hard it has been to find a good live Christmas tree (especially at a reasonable price). There are a number of reasons for this, but one is that the weather has not been conducive to growing healthy trees. Here is a CNN story from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","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=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23299,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions\/23299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}