{"id":27062,"date":"2024-02-13T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T02:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27062"},"modified":"2024-02-13T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T02:45:42","slug":"the-nation-just-saw-its-10th-wettest-january-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/02\/the-nation-just-saw-its-10th-wettest-january-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The nation just saw its 10th-wettest January on record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest monthly summary for January 2024 was released by NOAA on February 8. It shows that the country as a whole was the 10th wettest on record, with extraordinary rain and flooding in parts of the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. Because of the rain, drought conditions improved across a lot of the US with the exception of the Northern Plains. The temperature was ranked in the middle third of the 130-year record. However, a total of 1,125 U.S. counties broke nearly 2,500 daily minimum temperature records from January 14-18 during an Arctic outbreak. You can read the news release at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/nation-just-saw-its-10th-wettest-january-on-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/nation-just-saw-its-10th-wettest-january-on-record<\/a> and read more details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/national-climate-202401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/national-climate-202401<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-temp-ranking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-temp-ranking.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-temp-ranking.png 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-temp-ranking-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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\/2024\/02\/jan-24-precip-ranking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-precip-ranking.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-precip-ranking.png 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/02\/jan-24-precip-ranking-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest monthly summary for January 2024 was released by NOAA on February 8. It shows that the country as a whole was the 10th wettest on record, with extraordinary rain and flooding in parts of the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. Because of the rain, drought conditions improved across a lot of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27062","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\/27062","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=27062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27065,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27062\/revisions\/27065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}