{"id":24587,"date":"2022-09-09T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24587"},"modified":"2022-09-09T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:37:36","slug":"earthsky-drought-around-the-world-august-2022-in-dramatic-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/09\/earthsky-drought-around-the-world-august-2022-in-dramatic-images\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthSky: Drought around the world, August 2022, in dramatic images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This has been a very dry and hot year in many parts of the world. Europe just experienced its hottest summer ever. Drought has been a big problem in many areas, although not too much in the Southeast for us. EarthSky put a summary of drought conditions around the world together in late August with some startling images that show how low water levels have gotten in some places. You can view it <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/drought-around-world-2022-revealing-hidden-artifacts\/?fbclid=IwAR1Y_bpZJpswuk6LSQhn1JFKr-NutmQ_YXPlNKsKFz38f9a7AJJ1Lg1H5mU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/09\/Global-drought-map-NOAA-Aug-2022-e1661434754552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/09\/Global-drought-map-NOAA-Aug-2022-e1661434754552.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/09\/Global-drought-map-NOAA-Aug-2022-e1661434754552.jpg 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/09\/Global-drought-map-NOAA-Aug-2022-e1661434754552-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/09\/Global-drought-map-NOAA-Aug-2022-e1661434754552-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Here\u2019s a global drought map as of August 25, 2022. It includes data from the Northern American Drought Monitor, the 1-month GPCC Global Drought Index and the 1-month GPCC Standardized Precipitation Evaporation Index. Image via\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/5dceec104a384df094e65af12a274959\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a very dry and hot year in many parts of the world. Europe just experienced its hottest summer ever. Drought has been a big problem in many areas, although not too much in the Southeast for us. EarthSky put a summary of drought conditions around the world together in late August with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":24588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587","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=24587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24589,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions\/24589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}