{"id":24916,"date":"2022-11-08T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24916"},"modified":"2022-11-08T22:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:03:43","slug":"noaa-oct-2022-climate-summary-drought-extends-across-nearly-two-thirds-of-the-lower-48-mississippi-river-at-lowest-water-levels-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/11\/noaa-oct-2022-climate-summary-drought-extends-across-nearly-two-thirds-of-the-lower-48-mississippi-river-at-lowest-water-levels-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Oct 2022 climate summary: Drought extends across nearly two-thirds of the Lower 48; Mississippi River at lowest water levels in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released today by NOAA. It shows that temperatures were in the warmest third of the record and precipitation in the lowest third of the record in October 2022. This helped spread drought conditions to nearly 2\/3 of the Lower 48 states. This has led to the Mississippi River being at the lowest level in a long time, leading to barge traffic disruptions I have posted about previously. You can read more at https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/national-climate-202210<\/a> and see monthly statistics at https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/monthly-report\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released today by NOAA. It shows that temperatures were in the warmest third of the record and precipitation in the lowest third of the record in October 2022. This helped spread drought conditions to nearly 2\/3 of the Lower 48 states. This has led to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":24918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","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=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}